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This long poem on the final confrontation between God and sinner is generally regarded as Buchanan's masterpiece. A terrifying and dramatic vision of eternal punishment, it is printed here in full, in dual Gaelic and Scots texts: a publishing first. Dugald Buchanan (1716-68) was born in Strathyre, and became an evangelical itinerant preacher and later a teacher at Kinloch Rannoch. "A fine poet, an eloquent man, and mighty in the Scriptures", he left only a handful of poems, which were published the year before his death.

"James Robertson's stirring translation into Scots of the work of an 18th-century Gaelic poet tormented by visions of hellfire and damnation. Buchanan's Apocalypse offers little hope for "murtherers, bevvy-merchants,/An aw that hure an curse an thieve", but this bilingual pamphlet gives him a welcome resurrection." - Andrew Crumey, Scotland on Sunday.

"A wonderful contribution to our literature, revivalistic and futuristic at the same time." - Angus Calder.