Edwin Muir

Her epigraph comes from The Ugly Duchess by the German writer Lion Feuchtwanger : Sleep in Peace, father! I will be different from you.The Ugly Duchess: a historical romance, set in the fourteenth-century...

The novel is epistolary; its protagonist is called only K.—with perhaps some memory of the organizational victim-protagonist Josef K. in Franz Kafka 's The Trial (first translated into English by Willa and Edwin Muir

CC 's friends included Scotswomen she grew up with—doctors Maud McVail and Isobel Hutton , sculptor Phyllis Clay , and musician Maggie Mather . Among her literary friends were Vita Sackville-West (whom she stayed with...

Edwin Muir had called Thomas Griffiths and Parson Cope at its first appearance a little masterpiece of wit, poetry and fantasy.

RF has drawn appreciative comment from fellow poets and writers like Helen Dunmore , A. S. Byatt , and Elaine Feinstein (who has written that in a time when every poet is wooed by the...

Edwin Muir included KG 's The Relentless Year, along with work by Iain Crighton Smith and Christopher Levenson , when he edited New Poets 1959.

Patrick Magee , Harvey Hall , Stevie Smith , Hugh Dickson , and Basil Jones were the other readers for the project. The poets from whose work they read included W. B. Yeats , D. H. Lawrence

SJ tended to disparage this series; she called Love in Winter unworked: the materials for a novel rather than a novel.Initial critical responses to None Turn Back were also mixed. The Times Literary...

As a teenager, EJ read T. S. Eliot and (as she put it) wrote long poems of sort of vers libre which I imagined were influenced by Eliot, and which were very personal, in fact...

Every Changing Shape was reprinted in 1996 by Carcanet Press with a foreword by Michael Schmidt . It collects essays on Christian writers and mystics that address the way that faith informs the creative imagination...

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...

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

Reviewers were pleased to see more fiction from Lehmann after nine years, and the book was popular, although not hugely applauded. Those praising it included Edwin Muir . There was much debate over the real-life...

In 1938, EMM 's name appeared in an early number of Kriticky Mesicnik, a Czech literary periodical edited by Václav Černý (reprinted in 1972 and 1992), in a list of British writers including Rosamond Lehmann

Willa and Edwin Muir moved to from St Andrews to Edinburgh after Edwin obtained a job with the British Council , organizing activities and lectures for foreign allies housed in the city.