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.
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- Montreal, CA
Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- More Richly in Earth 2
- Title 4
- Copyright 5
- Dedication 6
- Contents 8
- Preface 10
- I A Traveller’s Tale 14
- II The Language of Birds 30
- III Kennings 46
- IV O’erswept by a Deluge 62
- V A Picturesque Figure 70
- VI The Place Longed For 88
- VII A Gathering 106
- VIII Metaphors for Poetry 118
- IX Cauldron 129
- X A Weakness for Whisky 148
- XI Plovers and Chicks 158
- XII When We Speak of Eternity 168
- XIII Mirror 177
- XIV A Drowning Wave 184
- XV Rodel of the Heart 199
- XVI Time’s Witness 207
- XVII Abetted by Cosmic Forces: Witchcraft 218
- XVIII Lying Men/Things 228
- Acknowledgments 238
- Notes 240
