Edwin Muir

Six years after Edwin Muir 's death, WM (as well as editing his Collected Poems) issued Living with Ballads, a study of the oral poetic tradition in Scotland, which he had planned but had left unfinished.

The question of the extent to which the couple collaborated in general is central to scholarship on WM , whose writing and translating career has been overshadowed by her husband 's literary legacy. Translations she...

Standard reference sources list Edwin Muir as co-translator of this work. The volume was reprinted on its own by the Limited Editions Club in 1987 and with other Muir translations of...

WM and Edwin Muir finished their translation of the Selected Short Stories of Franz Kafka in 1952. Then in 1958, the year before Edwin 's death, they finished another Kafka translation: Parables and Paradoxes...

Among her many reviews for various journals, EJ 's notice of Willa Muir 's Belonging: A Memoir (for the Times on 13 January 1968) calls it a really important book, but makes no bones about...

WM had a Shetlander's particular interest in the Auvergnat language: a local dialect of Occitan (which itself proved to be the historically non-dominant form of French). The owners and operators of the Samson Press were...

EBCJ dedicated her final novel, Morning and Cloud, to Phyllis Hamerton , with quotations from Edwin Muir and William Blake .

When WM became pregnant again, she and Edwin Muir decided to leave France for England, since a boy born in France would have been liable later for call-up to do national service in the...

WM spent an academic year in the USA, where Edwin Muir was Charles Eliot Norton Professor for the year at Harvard University , at the invitation of the poet Archibald MacLeish .