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3.33: Primary Literary figures
Robert Burns
Lewis Grassic Gibbon (author of Sunset Song - my favourite book)
Neil Gunn (particularly recommended is
Highland River/The Silver Darlings)
James Hogg (Confessions of a Justified Sinner)
Sir Walter Scott (The Heart of Midlothian)
Robert Louis Stevenson (Kidnapped)
Norman MacCaig (Collected poems)
Sorley Maclean (From Wood to Ridge)
The greatest Gaelic poet alive today and one of the greatest
ever. Book is bilingual; author's own translations.
Astoundingly powerful stuff.
ISBN 0 09 9887207 (published by Vintage, London)
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