Selected Poems
Edited and with an Introduction by Michael Longley
Published on 30. August 1988
Book
Paperback/Softback
192 pages
978-0-571-15270-4 (ISBN)
Description
'I would have a poet able bodied, fond of talking, a reader of the newspapers, capable of pity and laughter, informed in economics, appreciative of women, involved in personal relationships, actively interested in politics, susceptible to physical impressions.'Louis MacNeice's prescription is designed to look ordinary, rather than esoteric, but very little poetry can claim to meet these specifications, stringent in their very wideness. MacNeice's work matches the world he famously described as 'incorrigibly plural'.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Primary & secondary/elementary & high school
Dimensions
Height: 197 mm
Width: 127 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-571-15270-4 (9780571152704)
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Louis MacNeice | Edna Longley | Michael Longley
Selected Poems
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04/2007
Faber & Faber
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Person
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 1965.