In a Distant Isle: The Orkney Background of Edwin Muir

appears Autobiography awareness ballads belief Board Brothers brought Burroughs century changed Chapter childhood collection congregation course crofters death described dream early Edwin Muir example exile experience farm farmers father feeling Free Church George give Glasgow hill horses houses idea important island John Journey kind Kirkwall knowledge known land landlord later less Letters lived Marwick meeting memory ministers moved Muir Muir's myth nature neighbours never nineteenth century Orcadian Orkney Archives Orkney Herald Paradise past poem poet poetry poor records reference religious remembered rent road Rousay says Scotland Scottish seems seen social society story suggests symbol teacher tenants things thought took traditional Traill turn United Presbyterian wall writing wrote Wyre young