Description

Immediate dispatch from Somerset. No notes or highlighting. Nice older book in good condition. gift message in front. Year 1912. Hardcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> The editor has been for a long time familiar with the name of Duncan MacIntyre a name which is indeed famed throughout the Highlands and far beyond. But owing to the fact that Gaelic is read by few of those who speak it and that the language of the poet is admittedly difficult the knowledge of him is for the most part confined literally to his name or to a few lines of his poems. Even in the district where he was born and bred the same ignorance with little abatement though happily with some notable exceptions prevails. The editor having settled in the Duncan Ban country conceived that it reflected little credit on his intelligence to share in the general ignorance of one so widely re- nowned. He therefore studied the bard’s poems visited the places with which his name is connected and read the compositions with persons to whom the language and the locality are alike familiar. On the occasion of a visit to the late Rev. James M’Dougall of Duror the editor chanced to mention that he had some thoughts of attempting a new edition of the poet’s works with a metrical translation. The genial old Highland gentleman hailed the suggestion with such genuine warmth is. (SP)