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Edwin Muir

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Quotations
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Edwin Muir Quotes
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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...


Biography

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: Male

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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...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Edwin Muir Information
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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...


News and Journals
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The Washington Post
Caps' Muir Is Enjoying the Ride
11/08/2005: 698 words, approx. 2 pages
The players' parking lot outside the Washington Capitals' practice facility is filled with gleaming luxury cars and sport utility vehicles. And then there's Bryan Muir's car, a dusty old Volkswagen that looks like it came from a used-car lot near MCI Center. "Hey,...
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The Washington Post
Hoyas Hire Muir as Director of Athletics
06/10/2005: 553 words, approx. 2 pages
Georgetown University named Bernard Muir director of athletics yesterday, ending a year-long search by hiring a man who has both a basketball background and experience working at a strong academic institution. Muir, who is scheduled to start at Georgetown on July 1, has...


Criticism and Essays
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
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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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