Edwin Muir





Edwin Muir

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Average rating: 3.96 · 31,975 ratings · 1,114 reviews · 51 distinct works
Collected Poems
4.45 of 5 stars 4.45 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1965 — 2 editions
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An Autobiography
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1954 — 4 editions
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Scottish Journey
3.0 of 5 stars 3.00 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1935 — 3 editions
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The Structure Of The Novel
3.2 of 5 stars 3.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2006 — 3 editions
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The Marionette
5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Scott and Scotland: The pre...
5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1978 — 2 editions
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The Estate of Poetry
5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1962 — 2 editions
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Journeys and Places
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1937
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The Voyage & other stories
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“ Light and praise,
Love and atonement, harmony and peace.
Touch me, assail me, break and make my heart.”
Edwin Muir

“Since I emerged that day from the labyrinth,
Dazed with the tall and echoing passages,
The swift recoils, so many I almost feared
I’d meet myself returning at some smooth corner,
Myself or my ghost, for all there was unreal
After the straw ceased rustling and the bull
Lay dead upon the straw and I remained…

I could not live if this were not illusion.
It is a world, perhaps; but there’s another.
For once in a dream or trance I saw the gods
Each sitting on the top of his mountain-isle,
While down below the little ships sailed by…

That was the real world; I have touched it once,
And now shall know it always. But the lie,
The maze, the wild-wood waste of falsehood, roads
That run and run and never reach an end,
Embowered in error – I’d be prisoned there
But that my soul has birdwings to fly free.

Oh these deceits are strong almost as life.
Last night I dreamt I was in the labyrinth,
And woke far on. I did not know the place.”
Edwin Muir

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