Gershon, Karen. “The Relentless Year”. New Poets, 1959, edited by Edwin Muir, Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1959.
Edwin Muir
Standard Name: Muir, Edwin
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Anthologization | Karen Gershon | Edwin Muir
included KG
's The Relentless Year, along with work by |
death | Willa Muir | Eleven years after the death of her husband
, WM
died of heart failure in hospital at Dunoon on the Isle of Bute. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. |
Dedications | Willa Muir | She relied heavily on her journals for this book, which she dedicated to her late husband
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Muir, Willa. Belonging. Hogarth Press, 1968. prelims |
Family and Intimate relationships | Willa Muir | 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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Willa Muir | Willa Anderson
married the future poet and critic Edwin Muir
within a year of meeting him, at St Pancras Register Office
in London. Friends were sceptical, but their happy marriage lasted forty years. Muir, Willa. Belonging. Hogarth Press, 1968. 28 |
Friends, Associates | Kathleen Raine | 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 |
Friends, Associates | Catherine Carswell | 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... |
Health | Willa Muir | Both WM
and her husband
suffered from serious cases in 1919 of the famous influenza epidemic which had hit London the previous autumn. Recently arrived in Prague two years later, in a harsher winter than... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Willa Muir | 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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Jennings | 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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Phyllis Bentley | 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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sally Purcell | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Caroline Blackwood | 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 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Kathleen Raine | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Adrienne Rich | 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... |
Timeline
1925
1928
Edwin Muir
published The Structure of the Novel.
Autumn1945
The second number of Orion. A Miscellany appeared: Rosamond Lehmann
was one of the editors, along with C. Day Lewis
and Edwin Muir
.