SOURCE: Friar, Kimon. “The Circular Route.” Poetry 84 (April 1954): 27-32.
In the following review of Muir's Collected Poems, Friar provides an overview of the major themes of Muir's poetry: the tension between time and eternity, the horror of the first and second world wars as symbols of “life at its most material and unreal,” and life-long the journey from childhood to old age and death.
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