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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... thought he inherited " ancestral imagination " from Orkney . ' He thought it important that in Orkney there were so many signs of one civilization following another over the cen- turies , to the very theme , that is , of " The West ...
... thought he inherited " ancestral imagination " from Orkney . ' He thought it important that in Orkney there were so many signs of one civilization following another over the cen- turies , to the very theme , that is , of " The West ...
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... thought within the Church , the fashion for religious revivals , and the fact that , even after three centuries of Calvinist Presbyterianism , pre - Reformation and even pre - Christian modes of thought were still to be found . The ...
... thought within the Church , the fashion for religious revivals , and the fact that , even after three centuries of Calvinist Presbyterianism , pre - Reformation and even pre - Christian modes of thought were still to be found . The ...
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... thought and personality . There is , I think , strong justification for such an attachment . It is not merely that Muir , like Wordsworth , had a particularly enduring nostalgia for the innocence of childhood ; he had , in addition ...
... thought and personality . There is , I think , strong justification for such an attachment . It is not merely that Muir , like Wordsworth , had a particularly enduring nostalgia for the innocence of childhood ; he had , in addition ...
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