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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... neighbours ; these songs were part of an oral tradition and were known by heart ; they were at one and the same time both highly prized and yet not considered anything out of the ordinary . These statements are in harmony with the ...
... neighbours ; these songs were part of an oral tradition and were known by heart ; they were at one and the same time both highly prized and yet not considered anything out of the ordinary . These statements are in harmony with the ...
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... neighbours in the United Presbyterian Church to follow their example . The heart of Presbyterian worship was never music or cere- mony but remained " the preaching of the Word " . It was an exercise that enjoyed a reputation for ...
... neighbours in the United Presbyterian Church to follow their example . The heart of Presbyterian worship was never music or cere- mony but remained " the preaching of the Word " . It was an exercise that enjoyed a reputation for ...
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... neighbours , had eventually to emigrate to Canada . What he and writers like him achieved was permanent affirmation of faith in a disappearing way of life . As Muir did in a more literary way , they saw this disappearance , simply yet ...
... neighbours , had eventually to emigrate to Canada . What he and writers like him achieved was permanent affirmation of faith in a disappearing way of life . As Muir did in a more literary way , they saw this disappearance , simply yet ...
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