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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... early chapters of Muir's autobiography do not merely relate the things that happened to him . They describe a place and a way of life in terms of their significance to his understanding of human existence . Much of his poetry explores ...
... early chapters of Muir's autobiography do not merely relate the things that happened to him . They describe a place and a way of life in terms of their significance to his understanding of human existence . Much of his poetry explores ...
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... early chapters of An Autobiography that illumine Muir's poetry . Butter regards the early chapters as " one of the most beautiful accounts of childhood ever written . " 10 Christopher Wiseman says that the years spent in Wyre dominated ...
... early chapters of An Autobiography that illumine Muir's poetry . Butter regards the early chapters as " one of the most beautiful accounts of childhood ever written . " 10 Christopher Wiseman says that the years spent in Wyre dominated ...
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... early sources pure in the materialistic rubbishy world of the twen- tieth century . Against all the odds he succeeded.23 The story is heroic because more than a feat of memory was required . Muir had to do more than go beyond the grim ...
... early sources pure in the materialistic rubbishy world of the twen- tieth century . Against all the odds he succeeded.23 The story is heroic because more than a feat of memory was required . Muir had to do more than go beyond the grim ...
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