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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.”

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.

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. "