Sorley MacLean
Sorley MacLean (; |name=patronymic}}|name=pronunciation}} 26 October 1911 – 24 November 1996) was a Scottish Gaelic poet, described by the Scottish Poetry Library as "one of the major Scottish poets of the modern era" because of his "mastery of his chosen medium and his engagement with the European poetic tradition and European politics". Nobel Prize Laureate Seamus Heaney credited MacLean with saving Scottish Gaelic poetry.He was raised in a strict Presbyterian family on the island of Raasay, immersed in Gaelic culture and literature from birth, but abandoned religion for socialism. In the late 1930s, he befriended many Scottish Renaissance figures, such as Hugh MacDiarmid and Douglas Young. He was wounded three times while serving in the Royal Corps of Signals during the North African Campaign. MacLean published little after the war, due to his perfectionism. In 1956, he became head teacher at Plockton High School, where he advocated for the use of the Gaelic language in formal education.
In his poetry, MacLean juxtaposed traditional Gaelic elements with mainstream European elements, frequently comparing the Highland Clearances with contemporary events, especially the Spanish Civil War. His work was a unique fusion of traditional and modern elements that has been credited with restoring Gaelic tradition to its proper place and reinvigorating and modernizing the Gaelic language. Although his most influential works, ''Dàin do Eimhir'' and ''An Cuilthionn'', were published in 1943, MacLean did not become well known until the 1970s, when his works were published in English translation. His later poem ''Hallaig'', published 1954, achieved "cult status" outside Gaelic-speaking circles for its supernatural representation of a village depopulated in the Highland Clearances and came to represent all Scottish Gaelic poetry in the English-speaking imagination. Provided by Wikipedia
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by MacGill-Eain, Somhairle, 1911-1996
Philadelphia, Pa. : Iona Foundation, 1987
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by MacGill-Eain, Somhairle, 1911-1996
Glasgow : Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 2002
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by MacGill-Eain, Somhairle, 1911-1996
Dun Eideann : Canongate Publishing, 1977
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by MacGill-Eain, Somhairle, 1911-1996
Manchester : Carcanet, 1989
Manchester : Carcanet, 1989
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by MacGill-Eain, Somhairle, 1911-1996
Edinburgh [Scotland?] : Scottish Academic Press, 1986
Edinburgh [Scotland?] : Scottish Academic Press, 1986
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by MacGill-Eain, Somhairle, 1911-1996
Newcastle upon Tyne, Northern House, 1971
Newcastle upon Tyne, Northern House, 1971
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by MacGill-Eain, Somhairle, 1911-1996
Glasgow : Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 2002
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by MacGill-Eain, Somhairle, 1911-1996
Steòrnabhagh [Stornoway], Eilean Leòdhais : Acair, 1999
Steòrnabhagh [Stornoway], Eilean Leòdhais : Acair, 1999
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by MacGill-Eain, Somhairle, 1911-1996
Edinburgh : Polygon, 2011
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by MacGill-Eain, Somhairle, 1911-1996
Edinburgh : Polygon, 2014
Edinburgh : Polygon, 2014
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by MacGill-Eain, Somhairle, 1911-1996
Glasgow : Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 2011
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by MacGill-Eain, Somhairle, 1911-1996
Stornoway, Isle of Lewis : Acair, 1985
Stornoway, Isle of Lewis : Acair, 1985
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by MacGill-Eain, Somhairle, 1911-1996
Baile Átha Cliath : Coiscéim, 2013
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by MacRae, Stuart, 1976-
London : Novello, 2009
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Edinburgh : Canongate, 1995
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