# 2.1.1 Aims

The aims of these recordings, in which Sorley MacLean is interviewed by Iain Crichton Smith, are to:

- (a) help you to sense the power of MacLean's poetry in its original Gaelic;

- (b) assist your understanding of the English texts of the poems, translated by MacLean himself.

OpenLearn - The poetry of Sorley MacLean
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