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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... horse seems to come from another world ; it inspires both fear and love ; it judges man . Such attributes are given to the horse in both poems , " Horses " and " The Horses " . In the earlier poem the horses " seemed terrible , so wild ...
... horse seems to come from another world ; it inspires both fear and love ; it judges man . Such attributes are given to the horse in both poems , " Horses " and " The Horses " . In the earlier poem the horses " seemed terrible , so wild ...
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... horses in Orkney is quite striking . The Norse name for the mainland of Orkney was Hrossey , which means " island of horses " . At the time of the first Statistical Account ( 1798 ) there were 9000 horses in Orkney , a number which ...
... horses in Orkney is quite striking . The Norse name for the mainland of Orkney was Hrossey , which means " island of horses " . At the time of the first Statistical Account ( 1798 ) there were 9000 horses in Orkney , a number which ...
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... horse in Orkney culture and an attitude to horses which is at once reverential ( the horse represents another world ) and familiar ( the horse is man's companion in his daily work ) : the very attitude , that is , that informs " The Horses ...
... horse in Orkney culture and an attitude to horses which is at once reverential ( the horse represents another world ) and familiar ( the horse is man's companion in his daily work ) : the very attitude , that is , that informs " The Horses ...
Table des matières
Introduction I | 1 |
References | 159 |
List of Sources | 170 |
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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