Edwin Muir  

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Edwin Muir (15 May 1887 – 3 January 1959) was an Orcadian poet, novelist and translator born on a farm in Deerness on the Orkney Islands. He is remembered for his deeply felt and vivid poetry in plain language with few stylistic preoccupations.

Works

• We Moderns: Enigmas and Guesses, under the pseudonym Edward Moore, London, George Allen & Unwin, 1918
• Latitudes, New York, B. W. Huebsch, 1924
• First Poems, London, Hogarth Press, 1925
• Chorus of the Newly Dead, London, Hogarth Press, 1926
• Transition: Essays on Contemporary Literature, London, Hogarth Press, 1926
• The Marionette, London, Hogarth Press, 1927
• The Structure of the Novel, London, Hogarth Press, 1928
• John Knox: Portrait of a Calvinist, London, Jonathan Cape, 1929
• The Three Brothers, London, Heinemann, 1931
• Poor Tom, London, J. M. Dent & Sons, 1932
• Variations on a Time Theme, London, J. M. Dent & Sons, 1934
• Scottish Journey London, Heinemann in association with Victor Gollancz, 1935
• Journeys and Places, London, J. M. Dent & Sons, 1937
• The Present Age from 1914, London, Cresset Press, 1939
• The Story and the Fable: An Autobiography, London, Harrap, 1940
• The Narrow Place, London, Faber, 1943
• The Scots and Their Country, London, published for the British Council by Longman, 1946
• The Voyage, and Other Poems, London, Faber, 1946
• Essays on Literature and Society, London, Hogarth Press, 1949
• The Labyrinth, London, Faber, 1949
• Collected Poems, 1921-1951, London, Faber, 1952
• An Autobiography, London : Hogarth Press, 1954
• Prometheus, illustrated by John Piper, London, Faber, 1954
• One Foot in Eden, New York, Grove Press, 1956
• New Poets, 1959 (edited), London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1959
• The Estate of Poetry, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1962
• Collected Poems, London and New York, Oxford University Press, 1965
• The Politics of King Lear, New York, Haskell House, 1970

Translations by Willa and Edwin Muir

• Power by Lion Feuchtwanger, New York, Viking Press, 1926
• The Ugly Duchess: A Historical Romance by Lion Feuchtwanger, London, Martin Secker, 1927
• Two Anglo-Saxon Plays: The Oil Islands and Warren Hastings', by Lion Feuchtwanger, London, Martin Secker, 1929
• Success: A Novel by Lion Feuchtwanger, New York, Viking Press, 1930
• The Castle by Franz Kafka, London, Martin Secker, 1930
• The Sleepwalkers: A Trilogy by Hermann Broch, Boston, MA, Little, Brown & Company, 1932
• Josephus by Lion Feuchtwanger, New York, Viking Press, 1932
• Salvation by Sholem Asch, New York, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1934
• The Hill of Lies by Heinrich Mann, London, Jarrolds, 1934
• Mottke, the Thief by Sholem Asch, New York, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1935
• The Unknown Quantity by Hermann Broch, New York, Viking Press, 1935
• The Jew of Rome: A Historical Romance by Lion Feuchtwanger, London, Hutchinson, 1935
• The Loom of Justice by Ernst Lothar, New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1935
• Night over the East by Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, London, Sheed & Ward, 1936
• The Trial by Franz Kafka, London, Martin Secker, 1937, reissued New York, The Modern Library, 1957
• Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka, Harmondsworth, Penguin Books, 1961.

Translation by Edwin Muir

"Amerika" by Franz Kafka, New York, Doubleday/New Directions, 1946