The Estate of Poetry

by Edwin Muir, Archibald MacLeish (Foreword), John A. Haines (Introduction)

Book by Muir, Edwin

Genres: Poetry

118 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1962

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).

Reviews

[Angela · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was very interesting. A sort of philosophy of poetry. If I was in a more idle time of my life, I would study it more closely.

[Donald · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wendell Berry commends this book in an essay, so I read it. Muir's lectures are an interesting counterpoint to the Geoffrey Hill lectures I've been listening to. I wonder if Hill ever writes about Muir.

[Aine MacAodha · Rating 5 out of 5]

Just got this after a long search and looking forwards to reading it.