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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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Cecil Day Lewis
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Reading Lewis's autobiography is The Buried Day (1960). A book-length study is Clifford Dyment, C. Day Lewis (1944; 2d ed. 1963). See also Derek Stanford, Pylon Poets: MacNeice, Spender, Day-Lewis (1969). □
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Cuala Press
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Its publications emphasized literary merit rather than fine printing. Among the authors whose works were published by the Cuala Press are Yeats, Lionel Johnson, Lady Gregory, John Millington Synge, John Masefield, and Louis MacNeice.
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Northern Irish
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...heavy emigration to those countries. Seventeen United States presidents had Ulster forebears. Northern Irish poets Louis MacNeice, John Hewitt, and Seamus Heaney have international reputations, as does the flutist James Galway. Many Northern Irish entertainers...
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travel writing
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
...Robyn Davidson (1951– ) has crossed the Australian desert on a camel ( Tracks , 1980); and poets S. Armitage and G. Maxwell have visited Iceland in the footsteps of Auden and MacNeice ( Moon Country , 1996).
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Longley, Michael
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
...natural historian and elegist. His highly acclaimed work includes Weather in Japan (2000). He has edited 20th Century Irish Poems (2002) and (with his wife, the critic Edna Longley) an edition of MacNeice's Selected Poems (1988).
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