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               Edwin Muir (1887-1959)

                THE TRANSMUTATION

First Line:   That all should change to ghost and glance and gleam,

 


Transmutation is protected by copyright and should not be printed out or stored in any permanent form without permission of the copyright holder. It can be found in:
  • Muir, Edwin. The Complete Poems of Edwin Muir. Peter Butter, ed. Aberdeen: The Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 1991.
  • Bowen, Retta, Nick Temple, Nicholas Albery, and Stephanie Wienrich, eds. Poem A Day, Vol. 3. Hanover, NH: Zoland Books, 2004.

    In 1950, Muir wrote 'Among the Sonnets I like best "Transmutation"'.