SOURCE: Knight, Roger. “The Three Mirrors.” In Edwin Muir: An Introduction to His Work, pp. 123-38. London and New York: Longman Group Ltd., 1980.
In the following essay from an academic study on Muir, Knight examines the influence of Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil in Muir's poetry, particularly “The Three Mirrors.” In addition to analyzing several other poems, including “The Myth” and “Comfort in Self-Despite,” the author draws upon Muir's An Autobiography and other autobiographical essays to explicate Muir's understanding of Nietzsche's ideas.
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