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The Wallace
by Blind Harry
ISBN: 9781841954134
Imprint: Canongate Classics
Publication Date: Jun 2008
Format: Paperback
Price: £14.99
Stock Status: in stock
This extraordinary poem has been widely popular and influential ever since it was written in the 15th century, and its heroic account of the swordfighter Wallace was to symbolise the cause of liberty and independence to many other countries and cultures in the centuries to come. Looking back to the days of Bruce and the war of independence, Blind Harry’s poem is not an aristocratic tale of chivalry and nobility, but a vivid account of the vagaries of war and the brutal realities of battle, wounding and betrayal, all seen from the point of view of the troops in the field.
The fruit of many years of scholarship, Anne McKim has produced what is unquestionably the definitive edition of this truly epic work.
Blind Harry (c. 1440 – 1492) also known as Harry, Hary or Henry the Minstrel, is renowned as the author of The Actes and Deidis of the Illustre and Vallyeant Campioun Schir William Wallace, also known as The Wallace. Little is known about his life or identity and even his name remains something of a mystery.
Dr Anne McKim was born in Glasgow and educated at the Universities of Dundee, Manitoba and Edinburgh. She is Senior Lecturer at the University of Waikato in New Zealand.
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