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In the Cairngorms

By Nan Shepherd

Book information

Publisher
Galileo Publishing
Year
2017
ISBN
9781903385340
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
3 MB (2675621 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2023-08-03 22:56:48
Literary Criticism; Nonfiction; LCO000000

Description

First published in 1934, In The Cairngorms is Nan Shepherd's only book of poems. Although she wrote three acclaimed novels, and a remarkable prose meditation on the Cairngorms entitled The Living Mountain, Shepherd considered her poetry to have been her finest work.It took her twenty-five years to write these forty-six poems. Each is possessed of a fierce intensity; together, they offer glimpses into what she once called "the burning heart of life". Shepherd's lifelong acquaintance with the Scottish mountains was a spiritual as well as a geographical exploration: in the Cairngorms she discovered both elemental beauty and profound metaphysical mystery. Her huge gifts as a poet were to convey these discoveries in language that remains both strange and thrilling to the modern reader.

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