Edwin Muir (1887 - 1959)

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Edwin Muir (15 May 1887 - 3 January, 1959) was a Scottish poet and novelist. He was was born on a farm in Deerness , Orkney Islands in the remote northeast of Scotland. In 1901, when he was 14, his father lost the farm and the family moved to Glasgow. In Glasgow first his father, then his two brothers, and then his mother died in the space of a few years. His life as a young man in Glasgow was a depressing experience for him, involving a succession of unpleasant jobs. In 1919 he married Will.. Continue..

Some of Edwin Muir Poems

Abraham

Circle and Square

In Love For Long

Merlin

Scotland 1941

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	On the sixth day we came.

- Edwin Muir

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