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Author QuotedEdwin Muir
Title QuotedAutobiography
Date (Year/Month/Day)1966/08/00
ImprintLondon : Hogarth Press. 1954
QuotationBy the way I am reviewing the collected poems of Edwin Muir, and incidentally reading his autobiography along with them. He is quite remarkable. If you do not know him, you should. Not exactly Christian in a very formal sense, yet very Biblical too and soaked in a sense of myth, a very fine poet. A bit like Blake, a bit like Rilke. Eliot liked him "¦
Quotation SourceThe School of Charity: The Letters of Thomas Merton on Religious Renewal and Spiritual Direction.; Selected and edited by Brother Patrick Hart. / New York : Farrar Straus Giroux. 1990, p. 311
Letter toDame Marcella Van Bruyn
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