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“As a Roman arch survives the luxury of departed empire”
The title quote is taken from Arnold Bennett’s Old Wives’ Tale, an epic novel of 1908 whose essence can be distilled as the disastrous attempt of a lower middle class family to hold onto former Victorian glories while the structures … Continue reading →
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Tagged Arnold Bennett, class, Damian Barr, Deborah Orr, Edwardian literature, Hannah Arendt, Margaret Thatcher, memoir, Motherwell, Orkney, Scottish
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The man o’ independent mind: who was Robert Burns?
Robert Burns is the National Poet of Scotland – a phrase I use to introduce the most important figure of Scottish literature. This led, after about the third repetition to the question of: Why does not England then have a … Continue reading →
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Tagged bard, Burns, life, Literature, Scotland, Scottish
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