b>Edwin Muir/b> (1887 – 1959), one of our most distinguished modern poets, was, too, a traveller, translator, critic and novelist, the author of the famed i>Structure of the Novel/i> and i>The Marionette/i>. With his wife, Willa Muir, he was the translator of Kafka's i>The Castle /i>and i>The Trial/i>. He received the CBE in 1953, and settled in Cambridgeshire, where he continued to write poetry until his death in 1959.