Edwin Muir

Willa and Edwin Muir left Prague after about three years, shortly before the Communist Party , which had overthrown the elected government, closed Czechoslovakia's borders to foreigners or foreign travel.

After a year in Italy, Willa and Edwin Muir returned to Scotland, this time to Dalkeith, near Edinburgh where Edwin became warden of Newbattle Abbey College .

After their year in the United States, Willa and Edwin Muir returned to England and settled at Priory Cottage, Swaffham Prior, near Cambridge.

Willa and Edwin Muir , neither of whom had ever left the British Isles before, moved to Prague.

Willa and Edwin Muir settled in a small cottage at Penn in Buckinghamshire, without eletricity, gas, or a sewage system; they did not stay long.

Every Changing Shape was reprinted in 1996 by Carcanet Press with a foreword by Michael Schmidt . It collects essays on Christian writers and mystics that address the way that faith informs the creative imagination...

Though this is technically autobiography, she perhaps tells more about her husband than herself; Aileen Christianson , in her entry on WM in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, calls it more rightly a...

A translation by both WM and Edwin Muir of Kafka 's ground-breaking, modernist short storyThe Metamorphosis, written in 1912, was reprinted in a volume entitled Metamorphosis and Other Stories.

Six years after Edwin Muir 's death, WM (as well as editing his Collected Poems) issued Living with Ballads, a study of the oral poetic tradition in Scotland, which he had planned but had left unfinished.

The question of the extent to which the couple collaborated in general is central to scholarship on WM , whose writing and translating career has been overshadowed by her husband 's literary legacy. Translations she...

Standard reference sources list Edwin Muir as co-translator of this work.The volume was reprinted on its own by the Limited Editions Club in 1987 and with other Muir translations of...

Among her many reviews for various journals, EJ 's notice of Willa Muir 's Belonging: A Memoir (for the Times on 13 January 1968) calls it a really important book, but makes no bones about...

WM and Edwin Muir finished their translation of the Selected Short Stories of Franz Kafka in 1952. Then in 1958, the year before Edwin 's death, they finished another Kafka translation: Parables and Paradoxes.This...

EBCJ dedicated her final novel, Morning and Cloud, to Phyllis Hamerton , with quotations from Edwin Muir and William Blake .

WM had a Shetlander's particular interest in the Auvergnat language: a local dialect of Occitan (which itself proved to be the historically non-dominant form of French). The owners and operators of the Samson Press were...