Peerie Breeks: Willa and Edwin Muir
Robert Crawford, 21 September 2023
‘Iwas born before the Industrial Revolution,’ Edwin Muir wrote in The Story and the Fable (1940),
and am now about two hundred years old. But I have skipped a hundred and fifty of them. I was really born in 1737, and till I was fourteen no time-accidents happened to me. Then in 1751 I set out from Orkney for Glasgow. When I arrived I found that it was not 1751, but 1901, and that a...