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.