Edwin Muir

A translation by both WM and Edwin Muir of Kafka 's ground-breaking, modernist short story The Metamorphosis, written in 1912, was reprinted in a volume entitled Metamorphosis and Other Stories.

Willa and Edwin Muir moved to the Orkney Islands, off the northeast coast of Scotland (Edwin's native place).

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 short poems of this collection are, as usual with SP , highly allusive. Dr Dee II and Dr Dee III again deal with sixteenth-century magic. Other pieces respond to writing by other poets: to...

In later years, KR had a circle of friends at Cambridge which included C. S. Lewis , Edwin Muir and his wife Willa , Elizabeth Jennings , Owen Barfield , A. C. Harwood , Tom Henn

For KR , poetic tradition was that of the major romantic poets, headed by Blake and followed by Coleridge , Yeats , and Edwin Muir . She was at Girton when a generation of Cambridge...

The title poem comes last. Many of the pieces here, like the volume overall, are dedicated to individuals. They include dialogues between the present and the past or future, between personal life and the enormities...

The Times Literary Supplement provided another favourable review, basing its approbation on the persuasive character-drawing of the supposedly male author. Its comments had already been outshone by Gerald Gould in the Daily News...

VW had been ill while she was writing this book and was acutely anxious about its quality: she gave the manuscript to Leonard to read with the brief of pronouncing whether or not it was...