One foot in Eden still, I stand And look across the other land. The world’s great day is growing late, Yet strange these fields that we have planted So long with crops of love and hate.
Edwin Muir Quotes
Barely a twelvemonth after The seven days war that put the world to sleep, Late in the evening the strange horses came.
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| Birth: | 15th May, 1887 |
| Death: | 3rd January, 1959 |
| Nationality: | Scottish |
| Profession: | Novelist, Poet, Translator |
About
Edwin Muir was an Orcadian poet, novelist and translator, born on a farm in Deerness on the Orkney Islands. He is remembered for his deeply felt and vivid poetry in plain language with few stylistic preoccupations.
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