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Louis Collected Poems by Louis MacNeice (2013, Trade Paperback)

It is no longer necessary--and not before time--to "make a case" for MacNeice as a poet. He had a couple of decades of fame, and more of comparative neglect, but his contemporaries read him poorly on the whole, even when they were most appreciative: as a "30s poet" or "journalist," as the author of a few near-perfect lyrics, and even as a "professional lachrymose Irishman." Fortunately, errors of this order no longer need detailed correction. More to the point, it is the generations of poets, in Ireland as well as Britain, who have learned so much from MacNeice--formally, as well as in other ways--who provide the most potent argument for his poetry's continuing life. Two Irish poets in particular--Derek Mahon and Paul Muldoon--would be unrecognisable without MacNeice's example and influence; and others, from later Irish generations still, are continuing to discover and make creative use of resources in the poems of this writer who died before they were born.

Book Title
Louis Collected Poems
Author
Louis Macneice
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Anthologies (Multiple Authors), European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Publication Year
2013
Genre
Poetry
Number of Pages
876 Pages

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