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Edwin Muir, novelist, essayist and critic, was born and educated on Orkney. With his wife he translated Kafka and other writers in German, but his poetry is little influenced by modernist trends. T. S. Eliot wrote the Preface to his Collected Poems 1921–58 (1960).
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McEwan, N. (1989). Edwin Muir 1887–1959. In: McEwan, N. (eds) The Twentieth Century (1900–present). Macmillan Anthologies of English Literature. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20151-8_29
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