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Title: "Between the tiger's paws": Scotland, Czechoslovakia, and the poetry of Edwin Muir.(Critical essay)
Author: Richard K. Cross
Publication: Modern Age (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 22, 2008
Publisher: Intercollegiate Studies Institute Inc.
Volume: 50Issue: 3Page: 219(7)

Article Type: Critical essay

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This digital document, covering the life and work of Edwin Muir, is an entry from Contemporary Authors, a reference volume published by Thompson Gale. The length of the entry is 5371 words. The page length listed above is based on a typical 300-word page. Although the exact content of each entry from this volume can vary, typical entries include the following information:

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Chapters: A. J. Cronin, Naomi Mitchison, Edwin Morgan, Edwin Muir, Norman Maccaig, Compton Mackenzie, Catherine Carswell, Derick Thomson, Robert Mclellan, Eric Linklater, Helen Cruickshank, Douglas Young, Robert Garioch, Fionn Maccolla, James Bridie, George Campbell Hay, Jessie Kesson, Maurice Lindsay, Alan Bold, Nan Shepherd, F. Marian Mcneill, Tom Scott, John Macdougall Hay. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 103. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Archibald Joseph Cronin (19 July 1896 6 January 1981) was a Scottish physician and novelist. His best-known works are Hatter's Castle, The Stars Look Down, The Citadel, The Keys of the Kingdom and The Green Years, all of which were adapted to film. He also created the Dr. Finlay character, the hero of a series of stories that served as the basis for the popular BBC television and radio series entitled Dr. Finlay's Casebook. Rosebank Cottage, Cronin's birthplaceCronin was born at Rosebank Cottage in Cardross, Dunbartonshire, the only child of a Protestant mother, Jessie Cronin (née Montgomerie), and a Catholic father of Irish extraction, Patrick Cronin, and would later write of young men from similarly mixed backgrounds. His paternal grandparents were the proprietors of a public house in Alexandria, West Dunbartonshire. His maternal grandfather, Archibald Montgomerie, was a hatter who owned a shop in Dumbarton. After their marriage, Cronin's parents moved to Helensburgh, where he attended Grant Street School. When he was seven years old, his father, an insurance agent and commercial traveller, died from tuberculosis. He and his mother moved to her parents' home in Dumbarton, and she soon became the first female public health inspector in Scotland. Cronin was not only a precocious student at Dumbarton Academy who won many prizes and writing ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=201658 ... Read more

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Chapters: John Rae, Mungo Mackay, William Spence, Edwin Muir, William Balfour Baikie, George Mackay Brown, Kári Sölmundarson, Ivan Drever, Harald Leslie, Lord Birsay, James Aitken, Magnus Linklater, Cameron Stout, Sigurd the Stout, Stanley Cursiter, George Spence, James King, 1st Lord Eythin, Mary Brunton, the Wrigley Sisters, Julyan Sinclair, Hugh Marwick, Thomas Webster, Thomas Stewart Traill, Thomas Hourston, John Mooney, Ragnhild Eriksdotter, Thorfinn Turf-Einarsson, Earl of Orkney, Robert Rendall, Gilbert Balfour, John D. Mackay, Murdoch Mackenzie, Walter Traill Dennison, Ernest Marwick, William Towrie Cutt, John Firth, Rognvald Kali Kolsson, Earl of Orkney. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 105. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Mungo Mackay (April 1, 1740-March 29, 1811) was a Scotish seafarer from the Orkney Islands who made a fortune in the Boston Massachusetts shipping trades. Mungo was a highly regarded ship master, successful privateer owner and bonder, and operated a store on Long Wharf in Boston. He was also active in the politics of the town of Boston and the Masonic Order in Boston. His legacy includes the Alpheus Babcock and Jonas Chickering piano manufacturing establishments. Mungo Mackay was born in Holm Paplay parish, near Kirkwall, Orkney Islands in 1740 to Alexander Mackay who was married to Elizabeth Keith. Mungo made his way to Boston in about 1755, as a cabin boy according to family tradition. By about 1760 he was deeply involved in shipping, and became a Master by 1764. He married Ruth Coney in 1763, and their first child, Mungo, Jr. was born in 1765. Ruth was a grandniece of John Coney. The silversmiths.Paul Revere I and II made a pair of silver sauceboats for the couple. Mungo's brother Alexander, born in Holm Paplay parish near Kirkwall in 1747, also ca...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=25537620 ... Read more