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Louis MacNeice
In this compelling new study of one of the century's most memorable poets, Jon Stallworthy has produced an outstanding full-scale biography of Louis MacNeice, drawing on the testimony of family, friends, lovers, and MacNeice's extensive unpublished correspondence and papers. Stallworthy, whose Wilfred Owen was described by Graham Greene as "one of the finest biographies of...more
Hardcover, 572 pages
Published
July 1st 1995
by W. W. Norton & Company
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Auden called MacNeice "A lover of women and Donegal" and the two might be emblematic of the physical and the musical that runs through his verse. He wrote a handful of the most beautiful lyric poems in English. Most of them “love poems”.
MacNeice emerges as a far more likeable character than many of the more dogmatic "Greater Poets" of that "low dishonest decade". Which probably goes some way to explain why he gets overlooked. His description of the ideal poet is a self portrait:
"I would have th...more
MacNeice emerges as a far more likeable character than many of the more dogmatic "Greater Poets" of that "low dishonest decade". Which probably goes some way to explain why he gets overlooked. His description of the ideal poet is a self portrait:
"I would have th...more
This was an excellent biography of a poet's poet by very able biographer, I have had the opportunity of hearing Dr. Stallworthy lecture a few times at Oxford as well as read his brilliant biography of another poet Wilfred Owen. His research deepens the understanding of another writer's life and his observations add a picture of a very interesting artist which Macneice was.
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