More Richly in Earth : A Poet's Search for Mary MacLeod.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bowering, Marilyn.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poets, Scottish--17th century--Biography.

Poets, Scottish.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (281 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2024.

Summary:

Mary MacLeod was a rarity: a female bard in seventeenth-century Scotland. A chronicle of travel through the Scottish Hebrides, More Richly in Earth explores MacLeod's life and legacy, preserved within landscape and memory. Marilyn Bowering forms an unlikely connection with MacLeod despite differences of culture and language, time and place.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

I A Traveller’s Tale

II The Language of Birds

III Kennings

IV O’erswept by a Deluge

V A Picturesque Figure

VI The Place Longed For

VII A Gathering

VIII Metaphors for Poetry

IX Cauldron

X A Weakness for Whisky

XI Plovers and Chicks

XII When We Speak of Eternity

XIII Mirror

XIV A Drowning Wave

XV Rodel of the Heart

XVI Time’s Witness

XVII Abetted by Cosmic Forces: Witchcraft

XVIII Lying Men/Things

Acknowledgments

Notes

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780228021674

0228021677

9780228021681

0228021685

OCLC:

1429723047