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MACCOLL, EVAN; MACKENZIE, A. - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

The English Poetical Works of Evan Maccoll with a Biographical Sketch of the Author

Hunter, Rose & Co. 1885. Second Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Second Canadian Edition, no dust jacket, foliate decorations & gilt lettering & bordering on cover & spine, bookplate & ink on free end paper, some corner edge wear, page ridge tone, front hinge weakened with netting visible, text clean & readable, binding still mostly tight. 1885 Hard Cover. 351 pp. CONTENTS: Dedication; A Biographical Sketch of the Author; The Mountain Minstrel; Translations; Songs; Poems, Songs and Sonnets; Songs; Extracts From A Series of Carrier Boys' New Year's Day Addresses; Extracts From Notes of a Tour in the North of Scotland In 1838-39. "Evan MacColl, who has gained a wide celebrity both as a Gaelic and an English poet, was born at Kenmore, Loch Fyne-side, Scotland, on the 21st of September, 1808..In 1837 he became a contributor to the Gaelic Magazine then published in Glasgow. His poems excited much interest and speedily won a reputation for the youthful author. Before long a collection of his Gaelic poems was published under the title, of "Clarsach nam Beann," or "Poems and Songs in Gaelic." This was followed by another collection under the title of "The Mountain Minstrel, or Poems and Songs in English." This publication won him fresh laurels and many competent literary authorities were loud in his praise. Dr. Norman McLeod, editor of Good Words, wrote as follows: "Evan MacColl's poetry is the product of a mind impressed with the beauty and the grandeur of the lovely scenes in which his infancy has been nursed. We have no hesitation in saying that the work is that of a man possessed of much poetic genius. Wild indeed and sometimes rough are his rhymes and epithets, yet there are thoughts so new and strikingâ€”images and comparisons so beautiful and originalâ€”feelings so warm and fresh that stamp this Highland peasant as no ordinary man." - Poem Hunter.

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