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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... kind of freedom that one might expect from having choice . During the day there is choice of a kind : the absence of the men - folk " liberates " the keys of the piano and " sets free " Chopin , but every action behind the " idle doors ...
... kind of freedom that one might expect from having choice . During the day there is choice of a kind : the absence of the men - folk " liberates " the keys of the piano and " sets free " Chopin , but every action behind the " idle doors ...
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... kind of death . The houses of the " Suburban Dream " are not the kind of home Muir would recognize . Home has to be on the soil of his ancestors . The farmers , Muir tells us , “ had customs which sanctioned their instinctive feelings ...
... kind of death . The houses of the " Suburban Dream " are not the kind of home Muir would recognize . Home has to be on the soil of his ancestors . The farmers , Muir tells us , “ had customs which sanctioned their instinctive feelings ...
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... kind of intellectual ingenuity adopted by many of the more thinking members of his Church ; and he was of too speculative a turn of mind to accept doctrine instinctively in the way his cousin Sutherland did . Muir's liberation from ...
... kind of intellectual ingenuity adopted by many of the more thinking members of his Church ; and he was of too speculative a turn of mind to accept doctrine instinctively in the way his cousin Sutherland did . Muir's liberation from ...
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