Download or read book Hamish Henderson: The making of the poet written by Timothy Neat and published by Birlinn Publishers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. He was 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. 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.