Edwin Muir

Edwin Muir (15 May 1887 – 3 January 1959) was a Scottish poet, novelist and translator, born in Deerness, on the Orkney Islands. Quotes The curse of Scottish literature is the lack of a whole language, which finally means the lack of a whole mind. Scott and Scotland (1936), Introduction. There is a road that turning alwaysCuts off the country of Again.Archers stand there on every sideAnd as it runs time's deer is slainAnd lies where it has lain. "The Road", Journeys and Places (1937) The world's great day is growing late,Yet strange these fields that we have plantedSo long with crops of love and hate. One Foot in Eden (1972) Long time he lay upon the sunny hill,To his father's house below securely bound. Childhood (1983) They do not live in the world,Are not in time and space.From birth to death hurledNo word do they have, not oneTo plant a foot upon,Were never in any place. The Animals (1983) I have observed in foolish aweThe dateless mid-days of the lawAnd seen indifferent justice doneBy everyone on everyone. The Brothers (1983) External links Author:Edwin Muir Edwin Muir Edwin Muir's Grave Edwin Muir's Journey by Robert Richman (essay) Edwin Muir: Poet, Critic and Translator (website) Category:Novelists from Scotland Category:Translators from Scotland Category:Poets from Scotland Category:1959 deaths Category:1887 births Category:Harvard University faculty