Edwin Muir

Edwin Muir
Born(1887-05-15)15 May 1887
Deerness, Orkney, Scotland
Died3 January 1959(1959-01-03) (aged 71)
Cambridge, England
OccupationPoet, novelist, translator
LanguageEnglish

Edwin Muir CBE (15 May 1887 – 3 January 1959) was a Scottish[1] poet, novelist and translator. Born on a farm in Deerness, a parish of Orkney, Scotland, he is remembered for his deeply felt and vivid poetry written in plain language and with few stylistic preoccupations.

  1. ^ Edwin Muir, an Autobiography, Canongate Press, Edinburgh 1993, ISBN 0-86241-423-7)

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