SOURCE: Raine, Kathleen. “Edwin Muir.” In Defending Ancient Springs, pp. 1-16. London, New York and Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1967.
In the following essay from a book-length work on mysticism in poets such as Yeats, Blake, and Coleridge, Raine—a poet and literary critic—considers the use of fable and universal archetypes, along with influences from Scottish ballads and German literature, in the poetry of Muir.
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