Edwin Muir, poet and critic; also ILPer and guild socialist; born in Orkney, 15 May 1887; died at Cambridge, 3 January 1959.
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Edwin Muir, poet and critic; also ILPer and guild socialist; born in Orkney, 15 May 1887; died at Cambridge, 3 January 1959.
You forgot translator of Kafka as well…one of the the most under-rated British poets of the last century.
And involved in adult education via Newbattle where he inspired fellow Orcadian George Mackay Brown.