Edwin Muir

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

Willa and Edwin Muir moved to from St Andrews to Edinburgh after Edwin obtained a job with the British Council , organizing activities and lectures for foreign allies housed in the city.

After the war Willa and Edwin Muir moved back to Prague (where they had lived briefly in 1921-2) when Edwin was appointed Director of the city's British Institute (funded by the British Council ).

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 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 .

Every Changing Shape was reprinted in 1996 by Carcanet Press with a foreword by Michael Schmidt . It collects essays on Christian writers and mystics that address the way that faith informs the creative imagination...

Though this is technically autobiography, she perhaps tells more about her husband than herself; Aileen Christianson , in her entry on WM in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, calls it more rightly a...

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...

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...

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...

Among her many reviews for various journals, EJ 's notice of Willa Muir 's Belonging: A Memoir (for the Times on 13 January 1968) calls it a really important book, but makes no bones about...

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...

EBCJ dedicated her final novel, Morning and Cloud, to Phyllis Hamerton , with quotations from Edwin Muir and William Blake .

Willa and Edwin Muir embarked on their first translation project when they rendered three German plays into English blank verse for the multi-volume Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann, edited by Ludwig Lewisohn .

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...