Edwin Muir

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...

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 .

She relied heavily on her journals for this book, which she dedicated to her late husband .

Martin Secker published a translation, listed as by both Willa and Edwin Muir , of Lion Feuchtwanger 's novel Jew Süss.

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...

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.

Willa and Edwin Muir spent almost this entire year translating Hermann Broch 's The Sleepwalkers: A Trilogy.

Perhaps because WM 's writing career ran alongside that of her more famous husband , and because she published in collaboration with him, her own work has been subordinated to his and for a time...