SOURCE: "Poetry and the Unsayable: Edwin Muir's Conception of the Powers and Limitations of Poetic Speech," in Studies in Scottish Literature, Vol. XVII, 1982, pp. 23-38.
In the following essay, Bouson discusses Muir's attempts to elucidate through poetry such fundamental human experiences as the passage of time and the loss of innocence.
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