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Home / Publications / Books / Annual Volumes / The Complete Poems of Edwin Muir

The Complete Poems of Edwin Muir

Annual Volume 21 (1991)

THE COMPLETE POEMS OF EDWIN MUIR

Edited by Peter Butter

Published in: Hardback. 
By: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, Aberdeen, 1991. 
Price: £15.00 
ISBN 978-0-948877-13-1

This title is now OUT OF PRINT


All the poetry published by Muir in his lifetime is collected here in this volume, plus those works published after his death and a number of poems and versions of poems left out of previous collections. The poems are arranged, where appropriate, in sections representing the separate volumes of verse published by Muir himself, with additional poems printed in appendices. Professor Butter’s notes identify when each of Muir’s poems were written, and where. He quotes earlier versions and Muir’s own comments, in letters and notebooks, on his poetry, its genesis and meaning. Not included are Muir’s juvenilia and some occasional verses and translations, although these are all listed.

Peter Butter was Regius Professor of English at Glasgow University until 1986. He wrote a life of Muir (Edwin Muir: Man and Poet 1966), and edited selections of his letters (1974) and of his uncollected essays and reviews (The Truth of Imagination 1988).

Typeset by Speedspools, Edinburgh. Printed by Bell & Bain, Glasgow

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Retrieving and Renewing: a poem for ASL

   Forget your literature? – forget your soul.
   If you want to see your country hale and whole
   Turn back the pages of fourteen hundred years.
   Surely not? Oh yes, did you expect woad and spears?
   In Altus Prosator the bristly blustery land
   Bursts in buzz and fouth within a grand
   Music of metrical thought. Breathes there the man
   With soul so dead—? Probably! But a scan
   Would show his fault was ignorance:
   Don’t follow him. Cosmic circumstance
   Hides in nearest, most ordinary things.
   Find Scotland – find inalienable springs.
  Edwin Morgan, 2004

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