Selected Letters of Edwin Muir

by Edwin Muir, P.H. Butter (Editor)

“This book... will supplement Muir’s An Autobiography as an indispensable companion to his poems.” (Book jacket copy)

221 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1974

About the author

Edwin Muir, Orcadian poet, novelist and translator noted, together with his wife Willa Anderson, for making Franz Kafka available in English.

Between 1921 and 1923, Muir lived in Prague, Dresden, Italy, Salzburg and Vienna; he returned to the UK in 1924. Between 1925 and 1956, Muir published seven volumes of poetry which were collected after his death and published in 1991 as The Complete Poems of Edwin Muir. From 1927 to 1932 he published three novels, and in 1935 he came to St Andrews, where he produced his controversial Scott and Scotland (1936).