Geraldine (ginorgym)
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🎓part time Post grad (MPhil Res) Scottish Literature, University Of Glasgow, looking at the work of Edwin Muir, specifically Poor Tom. Powered by coffee ☕️ 📚avid reader & self confessed Scottish Literature geek 👵Older than I look but not wiser 🤪
Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie, Glad did I live and gladly die, And I laid me down with a will. This be the verse you grave for me: Here he lies where he longed to be; Home is the sailor, home from the sea, And the hunter home from the hill. (Robert Louis Stevenson)
Now and again mail still arrives for Dad from subscriptions he had that we forgot about. This one hurts because Dad and I used to look through it and chat about the articles. He always saved it for me just in case. Time to change the subscription to me!
A new addition to my Edwin Muir collection! First edition and it is signed! #grateful #edwinmuir #scottishliterature
‘The book is unfortunately a very lugubrious one; but I had to get it out of my system; and I look upon it only as the first third of a whole, the second of which I look upon as noisily comic - if I can bring it off.’ (ed. Butter, 1974) Edwin Muir to his sister & brother in law in 1932 on Poor Tom
Just cast my vote at my old primary school that I attended in the late 60’s early 70’s. Reminded me of the difference in times … please use your vote today
Not that I am biased or anything but this excellent tome is now out in paperback!
This superb book by some bloke called James Coleman will be available in paperback soon. Available to preorder via @edinburghup.bsky.social edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-remembe... #heismyweebrother
Two days of just Edwin and I! Checking quotes, references, and writing! Lots of writing! #edwinmuir #scottishliterature #poetry
Looking for clues! We Moderns by Edward Moore aka Edwin Muir! … not my favourite of his works! #edwinmuir
Seems an appropriate day to be reading this. Massie’s introduction made me rethink my literary critical skills. When you have to develop a confident argument for and against his introduction to Muir’s Scott and Scotland, you realise how far you still have to go. @alexmassie.bsky.social
Coffee, shortbread and Burns at Dad’s wonderful care home! He even managed to recite all of tae a wee moosey (as one lovely lady kept saying) @glasgowburns.bsky.social
Looking forward to this event @uofgarc.bsky.social today! #memory
And since it is coming up to #burnsnight Oxfam books website does it again!! @glasgowburns.bsky.social @hannahgrim02.bsky.social #robertburns
Another first edition for my Muir collection! #edwinmuir #scottishliterature
On 03/01/1959, Willa Muir sent Kathleen Raine a telegram that simply said ‘Edwin is dead’. One of the most profound experiences of my research, coming across this simple telegram in the Muir’s archive held at National Library of Scotland. #edwinmuir #OnThisDay #ScottishLiterature @asls.org.uk
On this day in 1959, Edwin Muir died. The Muir archive, in the National Library of Scotland , contains a letter from Willa Muir to Kathleen Raine sent 28/12/1958 re his admission to Addenbrooke Hospital ‘with a faint chance of survival’. #edwinmuir #OnThisDay #ScottishLiterature @asls.org.uk
Too Much from The Labyrinth (1949) Edwin Muir, The Complete Poems of Edwin Muir, ed. by Peter Butter (Aberdeen: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 1991), p.157. #edwinmuir #hogmanay #poetry