SOURCE: Hixson, Allie Corbin. “The Natural Poet.” In Edwin Muir: A Critical Study, pp. 137-76. New York: Vantage Press, 1977.
In the following essay from a scholarly book on Muir's life and work, Hixson suggests that reading First Poems (1925), which Muir published at age thirty-five, alongside The Labyrinth (1949), written after the Second World War, provides an understanding of the development of Muir's “exceptional poetic imagination.”
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