The Gaelic Songs of Duncan Macintyre —— Edited It Translation

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ISBN: 9781331819226 出版年：2016 页码：584 George Calder Forgotten Books

The editor has been for a long time familiar with the name of Duncan Maclntyre, 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 renowned. He therefore studied the bards 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.