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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... moved from Wyre in 1895 , disappointing , though as the crow flies it was only a few miles from Wyre : " The landscape was rough and desolate , the landscape of a second - rate saga ; it did not have the beautiful soft colours of Wyre ...
... moved from Wyre in 1895 , disappointing , though as the crow flies it was only a few miles from Wyre : " The landscape was rough and desolate , the landscape of a second - rate saga ; it did not have the beautiful soft colours of Wyre ...
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... moved by the sunset in a Highland glen , the boy from Wyre is moved , though in a different way , by his first sight of the Canongate in Edinburgh : " Perhaps it is the height of the houses , the great number and smallness of the ...
... moved by the sunset in a Highland glen , the boy from Wyre is moved , though in a different way , by his first sight of the Canongate in Edinburgh : " Perhaps it is the height of the houses , the great number and smallness of the ...
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... moved by minute degrees " and the schoolboy would sit " invisibly pushing the hands of the clock " and then " waken to realize that they had scarcely moved . " 15 The memory of that first experience of school contributed something to ...
... moved by minute degrees " and the schoolboy would sit " invisibly pushing the hands of the clock " and then " waken to realize that they had scarcely moved . " 15 The memory of that first experience of school contributed something to ...
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