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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... less jaundiced eye on the scene : " To the south of Rousay a pretty green islet lies , like an emerald in the sea . This delightful spot is Weir or Veira , the Vigr of the Norsemen . The author of this romantic description was R ...
... less jaundiced eye on the scene : " To the south of Rousay a pretty green islet lies , like an emerald in the sea . This delightful spot is Weir or Veira , the Vigr of the Norsemen . The author of this romantic description was R ...
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... less sentimental , they have less time to muse on the past , or to be amused with fairy tales . The Hill Trows , the Water Trows , and even the Kirk Trows , have nearly all disappeared before the advance of light and truth . Perhaps we ...
... less sentimental , they have less time to muse on the past , or to be amused with fairy tales . The Hill Trows , the Water Trows , and even the Kirk Trows , have nearly all disappeared before the advance of light and truth . Perhaps we ...
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... Less pure , accustomed to immortal fruits ? " I It was a cry that Eve's remote descendant , Edwin Muir , was to echo throughout his life . As Margaret Bottrall says of him , " His own life - pattern strikingly repeated the expulsion ...
... Less pure , accustomed to immortal fruits ? " I It was a cry that Eve's remote descendant , Edwin Muir , was to echo throughout his life . As Margaret Bottrall says of him , " His own life - pattern strikingly repeated the expulsion ...
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