Edwin Muir

Standard Name: Muir, Edwin

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Residence Willa Muir
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 ).
Muir, Willa. Belonging. Hogarth Press.
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Residence Willa 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.
The Communist Party controlled Czechoslovakia...
Residence Willa Muir
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 .
Muir, Edwin. An Autobiography. Hogarth Press.
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Residence Willa Muir
After their year in the United States, Willa and Edwin Muir returned to England and settled at Priory Cottage, Swaffham Prior, near Cambridge.
Muir, Willa. Belonging. Hogarth Press.
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Residence Willa Muir
Willa and Edwin Muir , neither of whom had ever left the British Isles before, moved to Prague.
Muir, Willa. Belonging. Hogarth Press.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Textual Features Elizabeth Jennings
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...
Textual Features Willa Muir
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...
Textual Production Willa Muir
WM and her husband published their third Kafka translation: the unfinished novel The Trial (originally Der Prozess). Kafka had stopped work on it in 1916, but its first publication in German was not until...
Textual Production Willa Muir
Willa and Edwin Muir published their translation of Kafka 's third unfinished novel, America.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
81, under Franz Kafka
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Textual Production Willa Muir
A translation by both WM and Edwin Muir of Kafka 's ground-breaking, modernist short story The Metamorphosis, written in 1912, was reprinted in a volume entitled Metamorphosis and Other Stories.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Textual Production Willa Muir
Six years after Edwin Muir 's death, WM (as well as editing his Collected Poems) issued Living with Ballads, a study of the oral poetic tradition in Scotland, which he had planned but had left unfinished.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Muir, Willa. Belonging. Hogarth Press.
312
Elphinstone, Margaret. “Willa Muir: Crossing the Genres”. A History of Scottish Women’s Writing, edited by Douglas Gifford and Dorothy McMillan, Edinburgh University Press, pp. 400-15.
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Textual Production Willa Muir
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...
Textual Production Willa Muir
Standard reference sources list Edwin Muir as co-translator of this work.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
81, under Franz Kafka
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
The volume was reprinted on its own by the Limited Editions Club in 1987 and with other Muir translations of...
Textual Production Willa Muir
WM and Edwin Muir finished their translation of the Selected Short Stories of Franz Kafka in 1952.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Then in 1958, the year before Edwin 's death, they finished another Kafka translation: Parables and Paradoxes...
Textual Production Elizabeth Jennings
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...

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