THE MASTER GLEANERS OF GAELIC POETRY
The work of the gleaner—Authors of the three most precious relics
of Celtic literature, Leabhar Na h’Uidhre, Book of Hymns, and
Book of Leinster—of the three Highland treasures, Book of the
Dean of Lismore, Fernaig MS., and Book of Clanranald—Advent of
Macpherson—Collections and collectors between 1750 and
1820—First printed gleaning—Four nineteenth-century monuments,
Campbell’s Leabhar na Feinne, Mackenzie’s Beauties of Gaelic
Poetry, Sinclair’s Songster, and Carmichael’s Carmina
Gadelica—Other recent gleaners and their books 347