Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Loch Lomond The Trossachs and Loch Katrine by W.D. Cocker

Part of "Our Beautiful Homeland" series. Someone copied this for me long ago from this old book. Apparently there's no date in any edition but one bookseller estimated publication in 1938.
From Wikipedia
"W. D. Cocker (1882 – 1970) was a Scottish poet who wrote in both Scots and English.
In the First World War, Cocker served with the Highland Light infantry, and was taken prisoner in 1917. His war poetry is fairly limited in scope, but includes the poems 'Up the Line to Poelkapelle', 'The Sniper' and a five-part sonnet cycle entitled 'Sonnets in Captivity'.
He is best known for his humorous poems in Scots, often on Biblical themes, such as 'The Deluge', on the story of Noah and the Flood."

Another attraction of his books was the illustrations. The ones in this book were drawn by W. Douglas MacLeod.
















2 comments:

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Anonymous said...

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