SOURCE: DiPiero, W. S. “On Edwin Muir.” Chicago Review 37, no. 1 (winter 1990): 80-8.
In the following essay, DiPiero reflects on Muir's contributions to poetry and concludes that Muir's poetry embodies a struggle against what Muir called “the cry of historical necessity over the life of the individual.” The author calls Muir a religious poet whose language eschews “sacred decoration,” and whose works are informed by “a sense of decency” and “human goodness and kindness.”
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