Evidence: | '[Muir's] account of his reading material as a young man in Glasgow points to an involvement with poems of the Romantic and post-Romantic periods which were concerned both with visionary experience and with the need to transcend human suffering. He tells us: I was enchanted by The Solitary Reaper, the Ode to a Nightingale, the Ode to the West Wind, The Lotus Eaters, and the chorus from Atalanta in Calydon'. |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1912 and 1919 | ||||||||||
Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Glasgow | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Edwin Muir |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | n/a |
Date of Birth | 1887 |
Socio-economic group: | Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder |
Occupation: | worked in various offices including bone factory, later poet and critic |
Religion: | Christian |
Country of origin: | Scotland |
Country of experience: | Scotland |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Percy Bysshe Shelley |
Title: | 'Ode to the West Wind' |
Genre: | Poetry |
Form of Text: | Print: Unknown |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 1311 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Margery McCulloch | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | Edwin Muir: Poet, Critic and Novelist | |
Place of Publication: | Edinburgh | |
Date of Publication: | 1993 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 5 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Margery McCulloch, Edwin Muir: Poet, Critic and Novelist (Edinburgh, 1993), p. 5, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=1311, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
See Edwin Muir, 'An Autobiography' (1954) p.99 |
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