SOURCE: Merwin, W. S. “Four British Poets.” The Kenyon Review 15, no. 3 (summer 1953): 468-72.
In the following review of Edwin Muir's Collected Poems, poet W. S. Merwin compares Muir to Robert Frost, W. B. Yeats, and William Wordsworth, and explores the duality of Muir's idealism as reflected in poems such as “Variations on a Time Theme,” “The Annunciation,” “The Island,” and “The Animals.”
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