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Louis MacNeice
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Louis MacNeice The British poet Louis MacNeice (1907-1964) claimed himself to be not a theorist but a...post-humously published as The Strings Are False. Louis MacNeice was born on September 12, 1907, in Belfast, Ireland. Educated...
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MacNeice, Louis
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
MacNeice, Louis (1907–63) Northern Irish poet. MacNeice was a leading member of a left-wing group of writers...dubbed the ‘Auden circle’. MacNeice and W. H. Auden collaborated on Letters from Iceland...
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MacNeice, (Frederick) Louis
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
MacNeice, (Frederick) Louis (1907–63), poet, born in Belfast, educated at Merton...both in 1965). His Collected Poems , edited by E. R. Dodds, appeared in 1966. See Louis MacNeice by J. Stallworthy (1995).
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Wystan Hugh Auden
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...undergraduates were Cecil Day Lewis, Louis MacNeice, and Stephen Spender, who, with Auden...traveled in Germany. In 1937 he went with MacNeice to Iceland and in 1938 with Isherwood...War (1939), the first written with MacNeice and the second with Isherwood. Auden...
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Auden, W. H.
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
...Marxist response to the public chaos of the 1930s, were MacNeice , Day-Lewis , and Spender , with whom his name is often linked...passport to escape from Nazi Germany. A visit to Iceland with MacNeice in 1936 produced their joint Letters from Iceland (1937...
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Auden, W(ystan) H(ugh)
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
...poem Spain (1937); other travels gave rise to Letters from Iceland (1937), verse and prose in collaboration with Louis MacNeice, expressing a holiday mood in temporarily escaping Europe; and Journey to a War (1939), a sad survey of the contemporary...
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New Verse
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
New Verse, a little magazine edited 1933–9 by its founder G. Grigson . It included work by Auden , MacNeice , G. Barker , Empson , R. Fuller , and the young Ewart , among others, and attacked, among other objects, the drowsy poeticism...
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war poetry, 20th-cent.
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
...War, very much a writers' war, attracted some important British poets, including John Cornford , Spender , Auden , and MacNeice , as well as less well-remembered names like those of Clive Branson, Miles Tomalin, Bernard Gutteridge, and H. B. Mallalieu...
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Sir Stephen Spender
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...English poet and critic, b. London. His early poetry—like that of W. H. Auden , C. Day Lewis , and Louis MacNeice , with whom he became associated at Oxford—was inspired by social protest. His autobiography, World within World...
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Faber Book of Modern Verse, The
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
...Roberts , which did much to influence taste and establish the reputations of a rising generation of poets, including Auden , MacNeice , Empson , Graves , Dylan Thomas . In his introduction, Roberts traces the influences of Clough , G. M. Hopkins (himself...
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