Born on the Orkney island of Wyre in 1887, Edwin Muir settled in
various parts of Europe during the first half of the twentieth
century - from Glasgow, to Austria and Czechoslovakia throughout to
1920s, 1930s and again after the war. Muir's poetry bears oblique
witness to the most traumatic years and events of this century, and
is haunted by the symbolic 'fable' which he longed to find beneath
the surface 'story' of mere events, as he came to terms with his
own nature amidst the terror and confusion of the European
maelstrom. As Seamus Heaney has written: 'Muir's poetic strength
revealed itself in being able to co-ordinate the nightmare of
history with that place in himself where he had trembled with
anticipation . . . His simultaneous at-homeness and abroadness is
exemplary.'
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