Edwin Muir

Willa and Edwin Muir left Prague after about three years, shortly before the Communist Party , which had overthrown the elected government, closed Czechoslovakia's borders to foreigners or foreign travel.

After attending the theatre regularly in Prague in 1921-2, WM began planning a play on a biblical theme, to dramatize in modern terms the situation in which Noah and his family found themselves once the...

After a year in Italy, Willa and Edwin Muir returned to Scotland, this time to Dalkeith, near Edinburgh where Edwin became warden of Newbattle Abbey College .

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...