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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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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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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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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"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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ever." Another poet, beside Donne, whom MacCaig claimed was a great influence on his work was Louis MacNeice.[citation needed] Although he never lost...
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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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García Luque - Somhairle Macalastair - Hugh MacDiarmid - Donagh MacDonagh - Antonio Machado - Louis MacNeice - H. B. Mallalieu - Ewart Milne - Pablo Neruda...
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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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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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(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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Corpus Christi College, Oxford. At Marlborough he knew John Betjeman and Louis MacNeice; at Oxford Stephen Spender, Arthur Calder-Marshall, Isaiah Berlinand...
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provided Thomas with a regular income and brought him into contact with Louis MacNeice, a congenial drinking companion whose advice Thomas cherished. On 29...
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the newly established BBC Third Programme after being approached by Louis MacNeice and offered a post. He involved himself in the Regionalist movement...
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college's secret "Society of Amici", in which he was a contemporary of Louis MacNeice (whose unfinished autobiography The Strings Are False contains numerous...
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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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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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before 1922, two distinct literary cultures. C. S. Lewis (1898–1963) and Louis MacNeice (1907–63) are two writers who were born and raised in Northern Ireland...
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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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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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King of Elfland's Daughter shares many similarities with the story. Louis MacNeice wrote a radio play, The Dark Tower, based on the Childe Rowland story...
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