Incorrigibly Plural
Louis MacNeice and His Legacy
Published on 27. June 2012
320 pages
978-1-84777-594-8 (ISBN)
Description
Incorrigibly Plural celebrates the diversity and vitality of Louis MacNeice's writing. Poets and critics illuminate the work of a writer whose achievement and influence is increasingly recognised as central to modern poetry in English. Contributions include responses to MacNeice by poets such as Paul Farley, Leontia Flynn, Nick Laird, Derek Mahon, Glyn Maxwell and Paul Muldoon; discussions by critics such as Neil Corcoran, Valentine Cunningham, Hugh Haughton, Peter McDonald and Clair Wills; and more biographical accounts, including a memoir by MacNeice's son, the late Dan MacNeice.
For each of them, MacNeice remains a continuing presence for his insight into the mechanisms of the modern world, his complex political awareness, his ability to bring the historical moment alive. Above all, what emerges is pleasure in MacNeice's plurality of language and forms.
More than a retrospective work of criticism, Incorrigibly Plural belongs to live debates about contemporary poetry.
For each of them, MacNeice remains a continuing presence for his insight into the mechanisms of the modern world, his complex political awareness, his ability to bring the historical moment alive. Above all, what emerges is pleasure in MacNeice's plurality of language and forms.
More than a retrospective work of criticism, Incorrigibly Plural belongs to live debates about contemporary poetry.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Manchester
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Carcanet Press Ltd
File size
0,57 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-84777-594-8 (9781847775948)
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Persons
Fran Brearton is Reader in English at Queen's University Belfast. She is the author of The Great War in Irish Poetry (Oxford University Press, 2000) and Reading Michael Longley (Bloodaxe, 2006). Edna Longley is Professor Emerita at Queen's University Belfast. Her books include Poetry and Posterity (Bloodaxe, 2000) and, as editor, Edward Thomas: The Annotated Collected Poems (Bloodaxe, 2008).
Content
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Preface
1The Pity of It All
PETER MCDONALD
2Memoirs
DAN MACNEICE
3Pure Form, Impure Poetry, and Louis MacNeice's Letters
JONATHAN ALLISON
4 'I will acquire an attitude not yours': Was Frederick MacNeice a Home Ruler, and Why Does This Matter?
DAVID FITZPATRICK
5On MacNeice on Trains
LEONTIA FLYNN
6'What am I doing here?' Travel and MacNeice
TERENCE BROWN
7MacNeice and Thirties (Classical) Pastoralism
VALENTINE CUNNINGHAM
8Eclogues Between the Truculent
DEREK MAHON
9MacNeice's Vehicles
HUGH HAUGHTON
10 'Who would be loved by a goddess?' Graves, MacNeice, and the Lyric of Classical Myth
EDNA LONGLEY
11The Perning Birch: Yeats, Frost, MacNeice
PAUL MULDOON
12 'The ladies would say that he looked like a poet': Tom and the Selling of Louis
ANNE MARGARET DANIEL
13The Lives We Live
GERALD DAWE
14Turn and Turn Against: The Case of Autumn Journal
GLYN MAXWELL
15'The Parrot's lie': Autumn Sequel and the BBC
CLAIR WILLS
16'Bulbous Taliesin': MacNeice and Dylan Thomas
JOHN GOODBY
17When I Think of MacNeice
THOMAS MCCARTHY
18'His Inturned Eyes': MacNeice in the Woods
PAUL FARLEY
19 'Coming up England by a different line': Louis MacNeice and Philip Larkin
STEPHEN REGAN
20The Same Again? MacNeice's Repetitions
NEIL CORCORAN
21The Seal and the Cat
NICK LAIRD
Notes
Guide to Further Reading
Notes on Contributors
Index
List of Abbreviations
Preface
1The Pity of It All
PETER MCDONALD
2Memoirs
DAN MACNEICE
3Pure Form, Impure Poetry, and Louis MacNeice's Letters
JONATHAN ALLISON
4 'I will acquire an attitude not yours': Was Frederick MacNeice a Home Ruler, and Why Does This Matter?
DAVID FITZPATRICK
5On MacNeice on Trains
LEONTIA FLYNN
6'What am I doing here?' Travel and MacNeice
TERENCE BROWN
7MacNeice and Thirties (Classical) Pastoralism
VALENTINE CUNNINGHAM
8Eclogues Between the Truculent
DEREK MAHON
9MacNeice's Vehicles
HUGH HAUGHTON
10 'Who would be loved by a goddess?' Graves, MacNeice, and the Lyric of Classical Myth
EDNA LONGLEY
11The Perning Birch: Yeats, Frost, MacNeice
PAUL MULDOON
12 'The ladies would say that he looked like a poet': Tom and the Selling of Louis
ANNE MARGARET DANIEL
13The Lives We Live
GERALD DAWE
14Turn and Turn Against: The Case of Autumn Journal
GLYN MAXWELL
15'The Parrot's lie': Autumn Sequel and the BBC
CLAIR WILLS
16'Bulbous Taliesin': MacNeice and Dylan Thomas
JOHN GOODBY
17When I Think of MacNeice
THOMAS MCCARTHY
18'His Inturned Eyes': MacNeice in the Woods
PAUL FARLEY
19 'Coming up England by a different line': Louis MacNeice and Philip Larkin
STEPHEN REGAN
20The Same Again? MacNeice's Repetitions
NEIL CORCORAN
21The Seal and the Cat
NICK LAIRD
Notes
Guide to Further Reading
Notes on Contributors
Index
