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The Complete Poems of Edwin Muir
In addition to all of the poetry published by Edwin Muir in his lifetime, this volume includes works published after his death, as well as a number of poems and earlier drafts left out of previous collections. Also featured are notes on when and where the poems were written and Muir's own comments—originally from letters and journals—on his poetry's genesis and meaning.
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Edwin Muir
Rather than emphasising the Christian, transcendental elements in Edwin Muir's writing, this critical study focuses on the 'single, disunited world' - a search for meaning and values in the unstable, mundane world. Taking the reader chronologically through all his major works, it analyses the significance of Muir's Orcadian background, the influence of German Romanticism on his early poetry, and his European interests in general. The stylistic maturity of his later poetry is given particular attention, as is the relevance of Scotland to his whole work. Although Muir has traditionally been seen as standing apart from MacDiarmid's 'Renaissance', this challenging new study shows how he did in h...
Growing Up in the West
These books give four very different, and memorably vivid accounts of what it was to be young and growing up in Glasgow and the West of Scotland, from the 1930s to the 1960s. Poor Tom tells of a young man's struggle to come to terms with the slow death of his brother in the city slums of a culturally impoverished Scotland. Fernie brae celebrates the growth and education of a sensitive boy in a novel reminiscent of Joyce's Portrait of the Artist Gordon William's novel tells a grimmer story as its young protagonist eventually succumbs to a culture of drink and violence where the harshness of life on the land sits next to industrial sprawl: 'From scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs.' Set in the Clydeside shipyards, the wryly observant and humorous style of Apprentice strikes a happier note from the 1960s.
Selected Letters of Edwin Muir
"This book... will supplement Muir's An Autobiography as an indispensable companion to his poems." (Book jacket copy).
Selected Poems
The poetry of Edwin Muir (translator of Kafka) bears oblique witness to some of the most traumatic events of the 20th century. Mick Imlah's selection of the Orkney poet's work represents a thorough revaluation of his poetic achievement.
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