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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... wrote , " want the simplicity and hospitality of the Shetlanders , and do not by any means impress the stranger so favourably . " But this view is exceptional . More typical of the reaction of visitors to the people they met in Orkney ...
... wrote , " want the simplicity and hospitality of the Shetlanders , and do not by any means impress the stranger so favourably . " But this view is exceptional . More typical of the reaction of visitors to the people they met in Orkney ...
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... wrote to Sydney Schiff in 1939 , " and I can reconcile myself to no church . ” 3 In 1940 he wrote to William Soutar : " The difficulty with me is that I have faith , but that I cannot belong to any one religious community . " 4 Ten ...
... wrote to Sydney Schiff in 1939 , " and I can reconcile myself to no church . ” 3 In 1940 he wrote to William Soutar : " The difficulty with me is that I have faith , but that I cannot belong to any one religious community . " 4 Ten ...
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... wrote , “ like everyone who lives in an industrial town , I got used to these things . " What gives his observations the strength of vision is the shock of moving from one culture to another . One can call that shock the Fall . 17 In ...
... wrote , “ like everyone who lives in an industrial town , I got used to these things . " What gives his observations the strength of vision is the shock of moving from one culture to another . One can call that shock the Fall . 17 In ...
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