George Campbell Hay (Deorsa Mac Iain Dheorsa) : Collected Poems and Songs

George Campbell Hay (De rsa Mac Iain Dhe rsa) has been hailed as an important voice in Scottish literature and as a crucial figure in the renaissance of Gaelic poetry in the 20th century.

Yet with his collections long out of print, only a small proportion of his work has been available to the public.

These two volumes present George Campbell Hay's complete original poems, in Gaelic, Scots, English, French, Italian and Norwegian.

Volume I presents all of the poems chronologically, with accompanying English translations.

Volume II provides annotations to each poem, including a full list of sources; a detailed biography, heavily reliant on Hay's own correspondence, which sheds new light on the social, political and literary context of his work; an outline of Hay's main poetic concerns, in theme and in form; and some of Hay's own musical settings.

The volumes represent a notable addition to the canon of 20th-century Scottish literature and should permit a full evaluation of Hay's significance.

Published as a two-volume set in a deluxe edition in association with the Lorimer Memorial Trust.