Hamish Henderson, Volume 1: A Biography: The Making of the Poet (1919-1953)

by Timothy Neat

Overview

Hamish Henderson lived one of the great lives of twentieth-century Scotland, a dramatic life of epic European scale, a life of major artistic, political and spiritual achievement. Well-known as a songwriter, a poet and a pioneer in the field of Scottish folksong, Henderson was also a highly original translator of poetry - from Gaelic, French, German, Latin and Greek - much of it into Scots. He also translated the work of the Italian socialist Antonio Gramsci, whose "Prison Letters" he published in English in 1974.

Born in Blairgowrie, Perthshire, in 1919, Hamish Henderson spent his early years in Glenshee before moving to Ireland and then Devon. He won a scholarship to Dulwich College and went on to study Modern Languages at Cambridge. During the Second World War he served in North Africa and Italy with the 51st Highland Division. He died in March 2002. This book, a major study of this charismatic and fascinating man, presents both a detailed biography and an assessment of his place in the context of the twentieth century.

It is based on first-hand interviews with those who knew Henderson both personally and professionally as well as detailed research of published and unpublished sources.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780857904867
Publisher:	Birlinn, Limited
Publication date:	02/12/2021
Series:	Hamish Henderson , #1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	400
File size:	10 MB

About the Author

Timothy Neat is an art historian, film-maker and writer. He is the author of numerous books, including Part Seen, Part Imagined, a study of Charles Rennie Mackintosh, and a two-volume biography of Hamish Henderson. His film Play Me Something was Best Film, Festival de Cinema de Barcelona, 1989.

Timothy Neat is an art historian, film-maker and writer. He is the author of numerous books, including Part Seen, Part Imagined, a study of Charles Rennie Mackintosh, and a two-volume biography of Hamish Henderson. His film Play Me Something was Best Film, Festival de Cinema de Barcelona, 1989.

Editorial Reviews

Volume One of Timothy Neat's projected two-volumebiography captures Henderson's full complexity better thanthe published writings did.

The Times Literary Supplement

Detailed, vivid and fascinating'

Sunday Herald

Volume One of Timothy Neat's projected two-volumebiography captures Henderson's full complexity better than the published writings did'

Times Literary Supplement