Collected Poems by Louis Macneice
In the decades since his death in 1963, Louis MacNeice's reputation as a poet has grown steadily, and there are now several generations of readers in Ireland, Britain, and beyond, for whom he is one of the essential poets of the twentieth century. This edition presents MacNeice's poetry more accurately, as well as more fully.Louis MacNeice was born in Belfast in 1907 and educated at Marlborough and MertonCollege, Oxford. His first book of poems, Blind Fireworks, appeared in 1929, and he subsequently worked as a translator, literary critic, playwright, autobiographer, BBC producer and feature writer. The Burning Perch, his last volume of poems, appeared shortly before his death in 1963.
Peter McDonald was born in Belfast in 1962, and educated at Methodist College, Belfast, and University College Oxford. He is author of Louis MacNeice: The Poet in His Contexts (OUP 1991) and Mistaken Identities: Poetry and Northern Ireland (OUP, 1997). He is Tutor in English at Christ Church, Oxford.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780571331383 |
| ISBN 10 | 0571331386 |
| Title | Collected Poems |
| Author | Louis Macneice |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Faber & Faber |
| Year published | 2016-11-03 |
| Number of pages | 880 |
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