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Coleridge's trip to 'Sham-onix'
The 19th century craze for people writing poems about Mont Blanc (even if they'd never been there) [1700 words 7 mins
May 29
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Ronald Turnbull
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Mind has Mountains
Gerard Manley Hopkins could have been the greatest outdoor writer of the Victorian age. But, for religious reasons, wasn’t. [1300 words 6 mins
Mar 13
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Ronald Turnbull
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The Mountains and the Sea
“Two Voices are there,” according to Wordsworth: the Mountains, and the Sea. Suggesting that small boat stuff is a sort of horizontal mountains. [1000…
Jan 10
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Ronald Turnbull
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Coire na Caime, Liathach
Scotland's poet Hugh MacDiarmid has written about Liathach in a verse that embraces the mountain in all its peculiar sandstone grimness. [900 words, 4…
Jan 3
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Ronald Turnbull
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T S Eliot on Rannoch Moor
Was TS Eliot a poet of the Scottish Highlands? Apparently, he was. ‘Rannoch by Glencoe’ has been considered as his only great short lyric. Even if he…
Dec 13, 2023
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Ronald Turnbull
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