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Louis MacNeice (1907-1963) was a friend and contemporary of W. H. Auden and Stephen Spender at Oxford and his poetry has often been linked to their own. Whilst sharing certain characteristics with them, including a sharp political awareness, in recent years MacNeice’s poetry has been re-evaluated on its own terms, particularly by a new ...
Louis MacNeice (Belfast, 12 settembre 1907 – Londra, 3 settembre 1963) è stato un poeta britannico di cultura irlandese. Nato a Belfast , all'epoca nell'Irlanda unita facente parte del Regno Unito , iniziò gli studi a Marlborough College e a Oxford , dove conobbe letterati della statura di Cecil Day Lewis , Stephen Spender e Wystan Hugh Auden .
28 de abr. de 2017 · 2. ‘ Snow ’. One of Louis MacNeice’s most popular and best-known poems, ‘Snow’ is a description of the snow falling outside the window. But the poem is not concerned merely with the visual, but with a range of other senses, including taste. The poem is worth reading for the astonishing language-use in the fourth line alone: ‘World ...
Perhaps MacNeice’s most important connection to the world of Irish poetry is his admiration for W.B. Yeats, which was apparently mutual; Walker shows how much MacNeice respected the older poet (despite the rather flippant portrait of Yeats he paints in The Strings are False) and that Yeats regarded MacNeice as among the most promising of the rising generation of “radical” poets.
This chapter discusses Seamus Heaney’s idea of Louis MacNeice as a vital means of holding Ulster, Ireland, and England within the purview of a single imagination. It argues that such an idea, to be accurate, must register MacNeice’s extreme antagonism towards Ulster and Ireland. This antagonism is contextualized within the intense culture ...
31 de mar. de 2016 · Louis MacNeice and the Irish Poetry of his Time is insightful, articulately written, highly detailed in its analysis, and underpinned by substantial archival research. It compellingly establishes heretofore unrecognized instances of critical engagement and influence between MacNeice and a range of Irish poets in his lifetime.
By Louis MacNeice. The room was suddenly rich and the great bay-window was. Spawning snow and pink roses against it. Soundlessly collateral and incompatible: World is suddener than we fancy it. World is crazier and more of it than we think, Incorrigibly plural. I peel and portion. A tangerine and spit the pips and feel.
