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Is Edwin Muir a literary critic?

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Muir is also well known as a literary critic. Included among his critical writings are The Structure of the Novel (1928) The Present Age from 1914 (1939) and Essays on Literature and Society (1949). His other works include translations of Kafka; three novels The Marionette (1927) The Three Brothers (1931) and Poor Tom (1932); and an excellent autobiography The Story and the Fable (1940) which later appeared in an enlarged edition An Autobiography (1954).

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