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.
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Birth: | 15th May, 1887 |
Death: | 3rd January, 1959 |
Nationality: | Scottish |
Profession: | Novelist, Poet, Translator |
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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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