Edwin Muir
included KG
's The Relentless Year, along with work by Iain Crighton Smith and Christopher Levenson
, when he edited New Poets 1959.
Gershon, Karen. “The Relentless Year”. New Poets, 1959, edited by Edwin Muir, Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1959.
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 et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Dedications
Willa Muir
She relied heavily on her journals for this book, which she dedicated to her late husband
.
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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.
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
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
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
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...
Intertextuality and Influence
Kathleen Raine
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...
Intertextuality and Influence
Sally Purcell
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...
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...
Timeline
1925: Leonard and Virginia Woolf published Edwin...
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1928: Edwin Muir published The Structure of the...
Writing climate item
1928
Edwin Muir
published The Structure of the Novel.
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Kermode, Frank. “Fiction and E. M. Forster”. London Review of Books, 10 May 2007, pp. 15-24.
17
: The second number of Orion. A Miscellany...
Writing climate item
Autumn 1945
The second number of Orion. A Miscellany appeared: Rosamond Lehmann
was one of the editors, along with C. Day Lewis
and Edwin Muir
.
British Book News. British Council.
(1946): 308
Texts
Kafka, Franz. America. Translators Muir, Willa and Edwin Muir, G. Routledge and Sons, 1938.
Muir, Edwin. An Autobiography. Hogarth Press, 1964.
Feuchtwanger, Lion. Jew Süss. Translators Muir, Willa and Edwin Muir, M. Secker, 1926.
Kafka, Franz. Metamorphosis and Other Stories. Translators Muir, Willa and Edwin Muir, Penguin Books, 1961.
Bowen, Elizabeth. “Notes on Writing a Novel”. Orion: A Miscellany, edited by Rosamond Lehmann et al., Nicholson and Watson, 1945.
Kafka, Franz. The Castle. Translators Muir, Willa and Edwin Muir, M. Secker, 1930.
Kafka, Franz. The Penal Colony. Translators Muir, Willa and Edwin Muir, Schocken Books, 1948.
Gershon, Karen. “The Relentless Year”. New Poets, 1959, edited by Edwin Muir, Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1959.
Broch, Hermann. The Sleepwalkers: A Trilogy. Translators Muir, Willa and Edwin Muir, Secker, 1932.
Kafka, Franz. The Trial. Translators Muir, Edwin and Willa Muir, V. Gollancz, 1937.