Edwin Muir Dies

Edwin Muir, Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry in 1955-56, died recently of a heart ailment. The Scottish poet, novelist, and critic was 71.

Born in the Orkney Islands, Muir was successively a shipbuilder, journalist, and a cultural representative for the British government in his early years.

As Norton Professor, he delivered a series of lectures on the general theme of 'The Estate of Poetry."