![]() ![]() For the next fifteen years, until the outbreak of war, they were, in Edwin’s words, “a sort of translation factory.” Together they translated over thirty books Willa did a further half-dozen by herself. There they put their newly acquired German to use and became professional translators. When hyperinflation struck Germany, they moved to Austria, then to Italy, then back to England. Willa did some schoolteaching while Edwin stayed at home reading the latest German-language writers. The dollar was strong they hoped to make ends meet by reviewing books for the American periodical The Freeman.Īfter a nine-month spell in Prague, the Muirs moved to Dresden and began to learn German. In 1921 the Scottish poet Edwin Muir and his wife Willa gave up their jobs in London and went to live on the Continent. ![]()
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