Edwin Muir

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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 .

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...

After their year in the United States, Willa and Edwin Muir returned to England and settled at Priory Cottage, Swaffham Prior, near Cambridge.

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...

WM 's husband, the poet Edwin Muir , died. She wrote later: I could not believe it possible for me to be alive and for him to be dead. . . . We belonged together...

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...

Eleven years after the death of her husband , WM died of heart failure in hospital at Dunoon on the Isle of Bute.

In early March 1965, six years after Edwin 's death and at about the same time that she completed his Living with Ballads, WM published her edition of his Collected Poems. While she...