SOURCE: Hoffman, Daniel. “The Story and the Fable.” In Barbarous Knowledge: Myth in the Poetry of Yeats, Graves, and Muir, pp. 225-56. New York: Oxford University Press, 1967.
In the following essay from an academic book on myth in modern poetry, Hoffman draws upon Muir's autobiographical and critical writings to uncover the significance of myth in Muir's early and later poetry. Particular attention is given to “The Ballad of the Flood,” “Scotland, 1941,” and “The Combat.”
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