
The Collected Poems
Louis MacNeice(Author)
E. R. Dodds(Editor)
Faber & Faber (Publisher)
Published on 1. November 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
598 pages
978-0-571-11353-8 (ISBN)
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Edition
Main
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Illustrations
index
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 135 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
740 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-571-11353-8 (9780571113538)
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Louis MacNeice was born in Belfast in 1907, the son of a Church of Ireland rector, later a bishop. He was educated in England at Sherborne, Marlborough and Merton College, 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.