In a Distant Isle: The Orkney Background of Edwin MuirScottish Academic Press, 1987 - 184 pages Om social velfærd i Storbritannien, USA, Frankrig, Vesttyskland, Sverige, Østtyskland og Indien |
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... awareness of the " secret compass " in his breast . In 1937 a young Orkney writer , Ernest Marwick , sent some of his poems to Muir and asked for criticism and advice . The reply consisted of an honest and painstaking criticism of the ...
... awareness of the " secret compass " in his breast . In 1937 a young Orkney writer , Ernest Marwick , sent some of his poems to Muir and asked for criticism and advice . The reply consisted of an honest and painstaking criticism of the ...
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... awareness of the sky is very Orcadian . The round sky , which draws a horizon like an enclosing circle , is without doubt the strongest feature of the Orkney landscape . Of course , it is only over an island that one can have a ...
... awareness of the sky is very Orcadian . The round sky , which draws a horizon like an enclosing circle , is without doubt the strongest feature of the Orkney landscape . Of course , it is only over an island that one can have a ...
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... awareness of a pattern created in the past sets Muir apart from most of the poets of his generation . His wife explains : It would be difficult for any sensitive child to grow up in Orkney without being aware , not from schooling or ...
... awareness of a pattern created in the past sets Muir apart from most of the poets of his generation . His wife explains : It would be difficult for any sensitive child to grow up in Orkney without being aware , not from schooling or ...
Table des matières
Introduction I | 1 |
References | 159 |
List of Sources | 170 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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ation Autobiography ballads belief boyhood Burroughs Calvinism Calvinist Chapter childhood Church of Scotland congregation crofters Crofting Cursiter Dennison dream Edinburgh Edwin Muir Egilsay Eliade emigration Ernest Marwick evictions exile experience Fable farm farmers father Free Church George Mackay Brown George William Traill Glasgow Golden Age Highlands hill horses houses ibid innocence James Muir John Firth Kirkwall Burgh School labyrinth laird land landlord landscape lived M'Callum memory ministers Muir family Muir's Muir's poetry myth Napier Commission neighbours never nineteenth century Norse North Ronaldsay nostalgia Orcadian Orkney Archives Orkney Herald Paradise parish past peasant plough poem poet religion religious remembered rent road Robert Scarth Rousay Sanday Scots Scottish Journey Secession Church seems Selected Letters society songs Stanley Cursiter Statistical Account story suggests symbol teacher tenants theme traditional Trumland United Presbyterian Church wall Walter Traill Dennison Willa Muir writing wrote Wyre