biography
pronunciation:
[myoor]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1887–1959)
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| biography:
| Poet and critic, born in Deerness, Orkney Is, NE Scotland, UK. Educated in Kirkwall, he moved to Glasgow at 14, and in 1919 married the novelist Willa Anderson (1890–1970), with whom he settled in London. They travelled in mainland Europe (1921–4), where they collaborated in notable translations of Kafka and other authors. He also worked in Rome, Scotland, and Harvard (1955–6, as professor of poetry). His poems appeared in eight slim volumes, dating from 1925, notably in The Voyage (1946) and The Labyrinth (1949). His other writing includes a controversial study of John Knox, studies on D H Lawrence, and a volume of autobiography (1954). |
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