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| Name: |
Edwin Muir | | Variant Name: |
Edward Moore | | Birth Date: |
May 15, 1887 | | Death Date: |
January 3, 1959 | | Place of Birth: |
Mainland, Orkney, Scotland, The Folly, Parish of Deerness | | Place of Death: |
Swaffhan Prior, Cambridgeshire, England | | Nationality: |
British | | Ethnicity: |
Scottish | | Gender: |
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Biography of Edwin Muir
9,306 words, approx. 31 pages
 Though the translations of Kafka he did with his wife, Willa Muir, have long given Edwin Muir a secure place in modern literature, his reputation as a modern British poet of the first rank came only late in his life. While Yeats, Pound, and Eliot,...
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Biography of Edwin Muir
6,203 words, approx. 21 pages
 Edwin Muir's reputation today rests primarily on his poetry and secondarily on his criticism, autobiography, and translations. Between 1927 and 1932, however, he wrote three novels that served his personal purposes by developing his writing ability and...
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Biography of Edwin Muir
3,013 words, approx. 10 pages
 Edwin Muir made his mark as a poet, critic, novelist, journalist, translator, and a writer of evocative autobiography. His reputation grew slowly but steadily. In the 1920s and 1930s he was known mainly as a critic, particularly of the novel, and as...



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Edwin Muir Quotes
161 words, approx. 1 pages
 Edwin Muir ( 15 May 1887 - 3 January , 1959 ) was a Scottish poet, novelist and translator, born in Deerness, on the Orkney Islands. Sourced The world's great day is growing late, Yet strange these fields that we have planted So long with crops of love...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Edwin Muir Information
1,408 words, approx. 5 pages
 Edwin Muir (15 May 1887 - 3 January, 1959) was a Scottish[1][2] poet, novelist, and noted translator born on a farm in Deerness on the Orkney Islands. Remembered for his deeply felt and vivid poetry in plain, unostentatious language with few stylistic...



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Muir Woods as Muir knew it. (John Muir)
12/01/1992: 534 words, approx. 2 pages The forest has been protected and restored. And it's easier to get there WHEN JOHN MUIR learned in 1908 that his name would grace a new redwood preserve in Marin County, he wrote, "This is the best tree-lover's monument that could possibly...
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 The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
MUIR.(Obit)(Obituary)
05/06/2006: 444 words, approx. 2 pages Isabel Muir May 5, 2006 Isabel Muir, 94, formerly of Depot Street, died early Friday morning at Angel's Inn, Watertown, where she resided. She had been ill for several months. Mrs. Muir was born on September 20, 1911 in Natural Bridge...



Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Allie Corbin Hixson
12,246 words, approx. 41 pages
 In the following essay from a scholarly book on Muir's life and work, Hixson suggests that reading First Poems (1925), which Muir published at age thirty-five, alongside The Labyrinth (1949), written after the Second World War, provides an understanding of the development of Muir's “exceptional poetic imagination.”
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Critical Essay by Sheila Lodge
10,026 words, approx. 33 pages
 In the following essay, Lodge reconsiders prevailing views of Muir's political development as suggested by his autobiographical writings through an examination of his contributions to the New Age during the 1920s.
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Critical Essay by P. H. Gaskill
9,763 words, approx. 33 pages
 In the following essay, Gaskill examines "the various ways in which Muir's knowledge of Friedrich Hölderlin 's life and work manifests itself in his own poetry. "


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