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Collection name. Hay, George Campbell, Poet

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Papers of and concerning the poet George Campbell Hay (1915-1984).

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Identifier: MSS.26721-26792
Scope and Contents Born in Elderslie and educated in Tarbert Loch Fyne, Edinburgh and Oxford, George Campbell Hay spent most of his life in Edinburgh, but preserved a lifelong attachment to Kintyre, and in particular to Tarbert. Much of his poetry is a celebration of Kintyre, the land and its people, particularly the fishermen. Most of these poems had been written between 1938 and 1945 and already published in periodicals; they include translations from eleven languages. Hay's most important work,...
Dates: [Circa 1925]-1987, undated.