Edwin Muir (1887–1959)
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One of the foremost practitioners of modern Scottish letters, Edwin Muir was born to a farming family in the remote Orkney Islands. Forced to move with his family to the industrial city of Glasgow when he was 13, Muir held a series of minor and often grubby jobs before supporting himself mainly mehr anzeigen through journalism and occasional teaching. In 1919, he married Willa Anderson, and in his An Autobiography An Autobiography (1940) would describe their marriage as "the most fortunate event in my life." Willa Muir not only encouraged her husband to write but collaborated with him on numerous translations and other works. They were the first to translate the works of Franz Kafka (see Vol. 2) into English. Her own, moving autobiography, Belonging Belonging, is both an engrossing account and a minor masterpiece in its own right. In later life, Muir worked for the British Council, was warden of an adult educational college in Scotland, and served as visiting Charles Eliot Norton professor at Harvard University. Muir's poetry stands somewhat aloof from more flamboyant varieties of modernism, yet won the respect of both T. S. Eliot and W. B. Yeats. Often cast in seemingly traditional rhymes and meters, his verse depended on a vision, which Kathleen Raine described as "the perennial philosophy." Muir looked beneath surfaces of the world for archetypes of a primal and now-lost unity of the soul with the world. Sometimes he used the Scottish landscape and sometimes earlier mythology to convey his vision, as in One Foot in Eden One Foot in Eden (1956). Muir's criticism and translations are still worth reading as well. Among his critical works are Scott and ScotlandScott and Scotland (1936), Essays on Literature and Society (1949), and Structure of the NovelStructure of the Novel (1928). Though not known as a novelist, his most notable is The MarionetteThe Marionette (1927). (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen
Bildnachweis: Photo from Poetry since 1939, British Council, 1945
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Werke von Edwin Muir
Orion: A Miscellany Volume 1 — Herausgeber — 6 Exemplare
The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories — Übersetzer — 4 Exemplare
ThE Three Brothers 1 Exemplar
Variations on a Time Theme 1 Exemplar
エドウィン・ミュア詩集 1 Exemplar
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Metamorphosis and Other Stories (Penguin Modern Classics) (1961) — Übersetzer, einige Ausgaben — 693 Exemplare
World Poetry: An Anthology of Verse from Antiquity to Our Time (1998) — Mitwirkender — 448 Exemplare
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 4th Edition, Volume 2 (1979) — Mitwirkender — 250 Exemplare
Josephus-Trilogie. Der jüdische Krieg / Die Söhne / Der Tag wird kommen. (1932) — Übersetzer, einige Ausgaben — 85 Exemplare
Die Insel der großen Mutter oder Das Wunder der Ile des Dames. Eine Geschichte aus dem utopischen Archipelagus. (1924) — Übersetzer, einige Ausgaben — 29 Exemplare
The Reviewer, Volume IV, Numbers 1-5 (October 1923-October 1924) — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar
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- Andere Namen
- Moore, Edward
- Geburtstag
- 1887-05-15
- Todestag
- 1959-01-03
- Begräbnisort
- The church of St. Cyriac & St. Julitta, Swaffham Prior, Cambridgeshire, England
- Geschlecht
- male
- Nationalität
- UK
- Geburtsort
- Deerness, Orkney Islands, Scotland, UK
- Sterbeort
- Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
- Wohnorte
- Glasgow, Scotland, UK
London, England, UK - Ausbildung
- self-educated
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- poet
translator
literary critic
novelist
essayist
journalist - Beziehungen
- Muir, Willa (wife)
- Organisationen
- Hayford Hall Circle
Royal Society of Literature (1953) - Preise und Auszeichnungen
- Order of the British Empire (Commander ∙ 1953)
Johann-Heinrich-Voss Translation Award
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John Knox : portrait of a Calvinist von Edwin Muir
Great, some spotting inside
Rather self-indulgent, which I suppose is a risk for an autobiography, particularly a lengthy section about his dreams. The account of his childhood in Orkney was fascinating, however, and of his time in Prague during the communist coup. The rest was very dull. I didn't come away with a liking for the man.
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