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Edwin Muir CBE (15 May 1887 – 3 January 1959) was a Scottish poet, novelist and translator. Born on a farm in Deerness, a parish of Orkney, Scotland, he is remembered for his deeply felt and vivid poetry written in plain language and with few stylistic preoccupations.
A prominent Scottish poet and critic of the mid-twentieth century, Edwin Muir is also remembered as the translator who first brought the works of Franz Kafka to an English-speaking audience. After beginning his career as a critic and journalist, Muir started producing poetry in his mid-thirties,…
11 de may. de 2024 · Edwin Muir (born May 15, 1887, Deerness, Orkney, Scot.—died Jan. 3, 1959, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, Eng.) was a literary critic, translator, and one of the chief Scottish poets of his day writing in English. The son of a crofter, Muir received his education in Kirkwall.
Edwin Muir. 1887 - 1959. Image courtesy of University of St Andrews Library. POEMS BIBLIOGRAPHY CRITICISM. ‘Escaping from the enemy’s hand. Into the enemy’s vast domain, I sought by many a devious path, Having got in, to get out again.’. Edwin Muir was born in Deerness, Orkney, on 15 May 1887.
30 de oct. de 2019 · The Orcadian poet, novelist, critic, and translator Edwin Muir (1887-1959) is one of modern Scotland’s most important writers. His work evokes a timeless realm of dream and fable yet, at the same time, confronts the major catastrophes of the twentieth-century.
Edwin Muir was one of the chief Scottish poets of his day writing in English, as well as being known as a literary critic and translator. Born the son of a crofter, Muir was educated in Kirkwall. Following his marriage to Willa Anderson in 1919, he went to London where her wrote literary reviews and later began teaching English.
27 de sept. de 2017 · Edwin Muir (b. 15 May 1887–d. 3 January 1959) was born in the Orkney Isles in, living between the age of two and seven on the small island of Wyre, the memory of which provided the inspiration behind many of the themes and images in his adult poetry.
