The World of Rob Donn

Download or read book The World of Rob Donn written by Ian Grimble and published by The Saltire Society. This book was released on 1999 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rob Donn, an 18th-century oral Gaelic poet, practised his art in Strathnaver. In the first edition of this book, the late Dr Ian Grimble used Donn's life and work to demonstrate the vitality of the Gaelic way of life and literature before the Highland Clearances. For this updated and expanded edition, all of Donn's poems are presented in the original Gaelic together with rigorously revised English translations which reflect current standard orthography.