Poet and critic Robert Crawford explores in eloquent detail the literary-cultural background to Scottish nationalism in the lead-up to the referendum on independence for Scotland from the United Kingdom in September 2014. He begins with the totemic Battle of Bannockburn in 1314, in which the Scots routed the English and preserved their independence until the two nations' parliaments united in 1707. Paying particular attention to Robert Burns and continuing up to the present day, he examines how writers have set out in poetry, fiction, plays and on film the ideal of Scottish independence....
Poet and critic Robert Crawford explores in eloquent detail the literary-cultural background to Scottish nationalism in the lead-up to the referendum ...
Why is there a world? Does it reflect the presence of God in any way? Did the world spontaneously come into existence or is there a creator? How will it end? Does God Exist? Do religions give a coherent view of His existence and nature? Can we enter into relation with Him? Robert Crawford tries to answer these and other questions by arguing that religion and science complement one another and, while they use different sources and methods, insights can be gleaned from both concerning our nature, the world, and God. Major attention is given to Christianity because modern science arose in that...
Why is there a world? Does it reflect the presence of God in any way? Did the world spontaneously come into existence or is there a creator? How will ...
In his seventh full-length collection of poems, Robert Burns scholar Robert Crawford writes of love, loss, belief, and commitment
Whether in intimate erotic lyrics or in a sustained engagement with the politics of Scottish independence Robert Crawfordwrites with passion, wit, and assurance about struggles to pass on values and treasures. The book opens with a sequence of love poems, and closes with "Testament," a startlingly fresh gathering of deftly rhymed paraphrases based on the New Testament. Whether making versions of Cavafy or elegising fellow poet Mick Imlah, or writing how a...
In his seventh full-length collection of poems, Robert Burns scholar Robert Crawford writes of love, loss, belief, and commitment
Traces the life of T S Eliot from his childhood in the ragtime city of St Louis right up to the publication of his most famous poem, The Waste Land. This book reveals him in all his vulnerable complexity as student and lover, banker and philosopher, but most of all as an epoch-shaping poet struggling to make art among personal disasters.
Traces the life of T S Eliot from his childhood in the ragtime city of St Louis right up to the publication of his most famous poem, The Waste Land. T...
Francisco De Cuellar, Hugh Allingham, Robert Crawford
This is an extraordinarily bleak account of the survival of Francisco De Cuellar's, captain of the San Pedro, shipwrecked off the Sligo coast along with other vessels of the Spanish Armada. Washed up on Streedagh, injured and virtually naked, he faced a series of horrors ashore. Appalled by the sight of the bodies of twelve of his compatriots hanging from the ceiling of a ruined monastery and hounded by English troops and some locals, he bundled his way from horror to horror, in constant fear of capture and certain death in the English garrisoned North Sligo/Leitrim area. He eventually found...
This is an extraordinarily bleak account of the survival of Francisco De Cuellar's, captain of the San Pedro, shipwrecked off the Sligo coast along wi...
