• Frederick Louis MacNeice CBE (12 September 1907 – 3 September 1963) was an Irish poet, playwright and producer for the BBC. His poetry, which frequently...
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    The Sunlight on the Garden (category Poetry by Louis MacNeice)
    The Sunlight on the Garden is a 24-line poem by Louis MacNeice. It was written in late 1936 and was entitled Song at its first appearance in print, in...
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  • Letters from Iceland (category Books by Louis MacNeice)
    and, in collaboration with MacNeice, "W. H. Auden and Louis MacNeice: Their Last Will and Testament" (in verse). MacNeice's contributions include a verse...
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  • "Prayer Before Birth" is a poem written by the Irish poet Louis MacNeice (1907–1963) at the height of the Second World War. Written from the perspective...
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  • Autumn Journal (category Books by Louis MacNeice)
    Journal is an autobiographical long poem in twenty-four sections by Louis MacNeice. It was written between August and December 1938, and published as a...
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    Zoo is a book by Louis MacNeice. It was published by Michael Joseph in November 1938, and according to the publisher's list belongs in the category of...
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    (1936), play by Louis MacNeice Love from a Stranger (1937), film directed by Rowland V. Lee Out of the Picture (1937), play by Louis MacNeice The Sword In...
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  • British and Irish writers active in the 1930s that included W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice, Cecil Day-Lewis, Stephen Spender, Christopher Isherwood and sometimes...
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    Belfast in 1935. MacNeice was twice married. One of his sons by his first marriage was the poet, Louis MacNeice. Jon Stallworthy: Louis MacNeice, Faber and...
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  • Epilogue for W. H. Auden (category Poetry by Louis MacNeice)
    "Epilogue for W. H. Auden" is a 76-line poem by Louis MacNeice. It was written in late 1936 and was first published in book form in Letters from Iceland...
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    The Earth Compels (category Books by Louis MacNeice)
    poetry collection by Louis MacNeice. It was published by Faber and Faber on 28 April 1938, and was one of four books by Louis MacNeice to appear in 1938...
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    contemporary of John Betjeman and Anthony Blunt, and a close friend of Louis MacNeice. MacNeice's "He had a date" (1943) is loosely based on the life and death...
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    J. R. R. Tolkien. Friends he met at Oxford include Cecil Day-Lewis, Louis MacNeice, and Stephen Spender - Auden and these three were commonly though misleadingly...
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  • reference to Shakespeare's King Lear. Bruno Bettelheim Gargoyle Golem Louis MacNeice Petrifaction in mythology and fiction Sophie Calle Craighead, W. Edward;...
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    Astrologers), pp. 37–53 Neil Spencer, True as the Stars Above, 2000, pp. 126–7 Louis MacNeice, Astrology, Bloomsbury Books, London, 1989, pp. 100–1 Ray Grasse, Signs...
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  • based largely on Cambridge spy Anthony Blunt and in part on Irish poet Louis MacNeice. The Untouchable is both comical and poignant in its delineation of...
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  • coedited Selected Plays of Louis MacNeice, and a number of articles; he has re-edited, for Faber and Faber, MacNeice's Collected Poems. More generally...
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    Rugby Football Excursion (category Poetry by Louis MacNeice)
    Excursion is a 44-line poem by Louis MacNeice. It was written in 1938 and first published in book form in MacNeice's poetry collection The Earth Compels...
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    Garland, later at Tate Britain 'Wystan and Louis' devised by Patrick Garland about Wystan Auden and Louis MacNeice, performed by Patrick Garland, Corin Redgrave...
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    international footballer who lived his entire life in Carrickfergus. Louis MacNeice, poet, moved to the town when he was two years old (his father was appointed...
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    Carrickfergus (poem) (category Poetry by Louis MacNeice)
    "Carrickfergus" is a 44-line poem by Louis MacNeice. It was written in 1937 and first published in book form in MacNeice's poetry collection The Earth Compels...
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  • were not yet evident. The title comes from "Twelfth Night", a poem by Louis MacNeice. 1978: WH Smith Literary Award Beattie, Andrew (2010). The Danube: A...
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    work put to ludicrous use. The poem "Château Jackson" by Irish poet Louis MacNeice, in The Burning Perch collection, is a reinterpretation based on the...
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  • García Luque - Somhairle Macalastair - Hugh MacDiarmid - Donagh MacDonagh - Antonio Machado - Louis MacNeice - H. B. Mallalieu - Ewart Milne - Pablo Neruda...
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  • mentioned as the epitome of modernity by the Irish poet Louis MacNeice. Although McDowell cites MacNeice's reference as from Bagpipe Music, it is actually from...
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  • Alexander Woollcott The Dark Tower (radio play), a 1946 radio play by Louis MacNeice The Dark Tower (album), a 2011 album by Nox Arcana Dark Tower (building)...
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    Eumenides Gilbert Murray, 1925 – verse Agamemnon, Libation Bearers Louis MacNeice, 1936 – verse Agamemnon Edith Hamilton, 1937, Three Greek Plays: Prometheus...
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  • of the poet Louis Louis MacNeice (1907-1963, poet and playwright, born in Northern Ireland This page lists people with the surname McNeice. If an internal...
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    Phillip Wayne: Part One (1949) and Part Two (1959) for Penguin Books. Louis MacNeice: In 1949, the BBC commissioned an abridged translation for radio. It...
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    Thrapp's 2002 novel Mutiny's Curse is based on a similar premise. In 1959 Louis MacNeice produced a BBC Radio play called I Call Me Adam, written by Laurie Lee...
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