{"product_id":"sorley-maclean-poems-1932-82-with-signed-letter-compliments-card","title":"Sorley MacLean : Poems 1932-82 : With Signed Letter + Compliments Card","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Comic Sans MS;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003ePoems 1932-82\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eBy Sorley MacLean\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePublished by Iona Foundation, Philadelphia, 1987. First Edition. Paperback book with 181 pages.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eComes with a compliments card and a signed letter written in November 1988 from Sorley to Lynn [Eluned Brown] . . .  she was CEO of the Scottish Arts Council in the 1970s and was also a lecturer in English Lit at Edinburgh University. The letter was sent from Sorley's home on Skye.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe letter reads:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #174377;\"\u003eDear Lynne,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThank you so very much for 'B from a Stags Heart' [here Sorley refers to the book 'Bone From A Stag's Heart' by Paul Merchant]. I find it very different or, I should say, individual, but i have not really got into it properly yet. I hope the merchants are all well and in good spirits, even if Moelwyn is not as busy as ever. Give them my dearest regards.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI have not been in Edinburgh for some time now. The book I sent ought to have been out in 1981 or Jan 1982 or Jan 1984, and it ought to have been bilingual and published simultaneously in Britain and in North America.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI have left things too long and have had difficulties with publishers. Dan Gillis is a good man but has no worldly wisdom, and i have not benefited from that. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI hope things are going well in the Dept. Have you met Colin Matheson in language. He is a relative of mine, and i hope he is able and industrious. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAll the best, and i hope we meet again fairly soon.\u003cbr\u003eYours, Sorley\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCONDITION\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book is in very good condition. Covers good and contents clean throughout.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSorley MacLean\u003c\/b\u003e (Scottish Gaelic: Somhairle MacGill-Eain; 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Comic Sans MS;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial;\"\u003eAlthough 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Comic Sans MS;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Comic Sans MS;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial;\"\u003e(Loc: Shelf Scotland 1)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"The Gently Mad Book Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56660825571705,"sku":null,"price":285.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0735\/3496\/4020\/files\/poems.jpg?v=1771084808","url":"https:\/\/thegentlymadbookshop.co.uk\/products\/sorley-maclean-poems-1932-82-with-signed-letter-compliments-card","provider":"The Gently Mad Book Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}