Edwin Muir
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| Edwin Muir | |
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| Born |
15 Mey 1887 Deerness, Orkney Islands, Scotland |
| Dee'd |
3 Januar 1959 (aged 71) Swaffham Prior, Ingland |
| Thrift | Poet, novelist, translator |
Edwin Muir (15 Mey 1887 – 3 Januar 1959) wis a Scots Orcadian[1][2] poet, novelist an translator, born on a ferm in Deerness. He is remembert for his deeply felt an vivid poetry in plain leid wi few stylistic preoccupations, an for his extensive translations o Franz Kafka's wirks wi his wife Willa Muir.
References[eedit | eedit soorce]
- ↑ Edwin Muir, an Autobiography, Canongate Press, Edinburgh 1993, ISBN 0-86241-423-7)
- ↑ Paul Henderson Scott, Towards Independence, "Edwin Muir was an Orkney man who never quite felt that he was Scottish"
