Author: Richie McCaffery
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004679286
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
This study is the first exploration of the impact of World War Two on Scottish poets of both the front line and the home front. World War One has always been thought of as a poet’s war, one of horror and futility. The poetry of World War Two, by contrast, has long languished in its shadow, though there was a much greater amount of it written. This book asks whether these poets felt they were grown for war or rather that they grew through war experience, with an emphasis on the possibilities of the future instead of cataloguing the senseless horror of the battlefield. How were the hopes of Scottish poets different from their English counterparts? How was their poetry different, and how did it impact on their later lives?
Scotland’s Harvest
Author: Richie McCaffery
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004679286
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
This study is the first exploration of the impact of World War Two on Scottish poets of both the front line and the home front. World War One has always been thought of as a poet’s war, one of horror and futility. The poetry of World War Two, by contrast, has long languished in its shadow, though there was a much greater amount of it written. This book asks whether these poets felt they were grown for war or rather that they grew through war experience, with an emphasis on the possibilities of the future instead of cataloguing the senseless horror of the battlefield. How were the hopes of Scottish poets different from their English counterparts? How was their poetry different, and how did it impact on their later lives?
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004679286
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
This study is the first exploration of the impact of World War Two on Scottish poets of both the front line and the home front. World War One has always been thought of as a poet’s war, one of horror and futility. The poetry of World War Two, by contrast, has long languished in its shadow, though there was a much greater amount of it written. This book asks whether these poets felt they were grown for war or rather that they grew through war experience, with an emphasis on the possibilities of the future instead of cataloguing the senseless horror of the battlefield. How were the hopes of Scottish poets different from their English counterparts? How was their poetry different, and how did it impact on their later lives?
O, Do You Remember
Author: Seumas MacManus
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Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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The Scottish Hymnal
Author: Church of Scotland. General Assembly
Publisher:
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Category : Hymns, English
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
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Category : Hymns, English
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Scottish Agriculture
Author:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 488
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 488
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American Harvest
Author: Marie Mutsuki Mockett
Publisher: Graywolf Press
ISBN: 1644451166
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 445
Book Description
An epic story of the American wheat harvest, the politics of food, and the culture of the Great Plains For over one hundred years, the Mockett family has owned a seven-thousand-acre wheat farm in the panhandle of Nebraska, where Marie Mutsuki Mockett’s father was raised. Mockett, who grew up in bohemian Carmel, California, with her father and her Japanese mother, knew little about farming when she inherited this land. Her father had all but forsworn it. In American Harvest, Mockett accompanies a group of evangelical Christian wheat harvesters through the heartland at the invitation of Eric Wolgemuth, the conservative farmer who has cut her family’s fields for decades. As Mockett follows Wolgemuth’s crew on the trail of ripening wheat from Texas to Idaho, they contemplate what Wolgemuth refers to as “the divide,” inadvertently peeling back layers of the American story to expose its contradictions and unhealed wounds. She joins the crew in the fields, attends church, and struggles to adapt to the rhythms of rural life, all the while continually reminded of her own status as a person who signals “not white,” but who people she encounters can’t quite categorize. American Harvest is an extraordinary evocation of the land and a thoughtful exploration of ingrained beliefs, from evangelical skepticism of evolution to cosmopolitan assumptions about food production and farming. With exquisite lyricism and humanity, this astonishing book attempts to reconcile competing versions of our national story.
Publisher: Graywolf Press
ISBN: 1644451166
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 445
Book Description
An epic story of the American wheat harvest, the politics of food, and the culture of the Great Plains For over one hundred years, the Mockett family has owned a seven-thousand-acre wheat farm in the panhandle of Nebraska, where Marie Mutsuki Mockett’s father was raised. Mockett, who grew up in bohemian Carmel, California, with her father and her Japanese mother, knew little about farming when she inherited this land. Her father had all but forsworn it. In American Harvest, Mockett accompanies a group of evangelical Christian wheat harvesters through the heartland at the invitation of Eric Wolgemuth, the conservative farmer who has cut her family’s fields for decades. As Mockett follows Wolgemuth’s crew on the trail of ripening wheat from Texas to Idaho, they contemplate what Wolgemuth refers to as “the divide,” inadvertently peeling back layers of the American story to expose its contradictions and unhealed wounds. She joins the crew in the fields, attends church, and struggles to adapt to the rhythms of rural life, all the while continually reminded of her own status as a person who signals “not white,” but who people she encounters can’t quite categorize. American Harvest is an extraordinary evocation of the land and a thoughtful exploration of ingrained beliefs, from evangelical skepticism of evolution to cosmopolitan assumptions about food production and farming. With exquisite lyricism and humanity, this astonishing book attempts to reconcile competing versions of our national story.
The Scottish Psalter
Author: Free Church of Scotland. General Assembly
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Category : Presbyterian Church
Languages : en
Pages : 684
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Category : Presbyterian Church
Languages : en
Pages : 684
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Scottish Land
Author: Scottish Land Enquiry Committee
Publisher: London ; Toronto : Hodder and Stoughton
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
Publisher: London ; Toronto : Hodder and Stoughton
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 628
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Scottish Notes and Queries
Author: John Bulloch
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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 250
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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 250
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The Silver Bough: A calendar of Scottish national festivals: Candlemas to harvest home
Author: Florence Marian McNeill
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Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 204
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Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
The modern Scottish minstrel; or, The songs of Scotland of the past half century, with memoirs of the poets, and specimens in English verse of modern Gaelic bards, by C. Rogers
Author: Charles Rogers
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 326
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 326
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