Louis Macneice And The Poetry Of The 1930s

Author : Richard Danson Brown
Publisher : Writers and Their Work (Paperb
ISBN 13 : 0746311850
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Louis MacNeice and the Poetry of the 1930s written by Richard Danson Brown and published by Writers and Their Work (Paperb. This book was released on 2009 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study investigates Louis MacNiece in two major central strands. Firstly, it explores his ambiguous positioning as an Irish poet. Secondly, it presents him as a critically self-conscious writer, his readiness to explain his work helps to account for his influence on later poets.

Author : Chris Wigginton
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 1786837250
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modernism from the Margins written by Chris Wigginton and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Modernism from the Margins” is an accessible and challenging account of the 1930s writing of two of the most popular authors of the time. Locating the work of Louis MacNeice and Dylan Thomas historically, the book questions standard accounts of the period as Auden-dominated and offers an inclusive and theoretical account of the engagement of both writers with the varieties of Modernism. It is the first reading at length of either MacNeice’s or Thomas’s work in the light of literary theory, and one of only a handful of texts to look at the writing of the 1930s in these terms.This book is an important contribution to contemporary discussions of both of these writers, and of the general issues of modernism, postmodernism, literary identity, and cultural identity it raises.

Author : Louis MacNeice
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780571177769
Total Pages : 83 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Autumn Journal written by Louis MacNeice and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written between August and December 1938, this poem is a record of MacNeice's emotional and intellectual experience during those months. The trivia of everyday living is set against events in the world outside - the settlement in Munich and slow defeat in Spain.

Author : Louis MacNeice
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571263461
Total Pages : 711 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Letters of Louis MacNeice written by Louis MacNeice and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2014-11-20 with total page 711 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louis MacNeice is increasingly recognised as one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century, and his work has been a defining influence upon a generation of Irish poets that includes Derek Mahon, Michael Longley and Paul Muldoon. The Selected Letters is indispensable as a resource for an understanding of the intellectual culture of the mid-twentieth century. A Classics don, poet, playwright and globetrotting BBC producer, the medley and blend of MacNeice's cultural influences seems exemplary in its modernity. He kept up a significant correspondence with E. R. Dodds, Anthony Blunt and T. S. Eliot, to name but three prominent figures of the time. During his time at the BBC MacNeice witnessed many key events, including the partition of India in 1947 and the independence of the Gold Coast from Britain in 1957, and these are recorded in two long sequences to his wife, the singer Hedli Anderson. His complex relationship to Ireland and to his Irish heritages speak resonantly to contemporary debates about Irish and Northern Irish cultural identity. Finally, the Letters will do much to broaden our understanding of a vivid and often enigmatic personality whose varied life and individual charisma have often resisted explanation.

Author : Tom Walker
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019106243X
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Louis MacNeice and the Irish Poetry of his Time written by Tom Walker and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-17 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study focuses on Louis MacNeice's creative and critical engagement with other Irish poets during his lifetime. It draws on extensive archival research to uncover the previously unrecognised extent of the poet's contact with Irish literary mores and networks. Poetic dialogues with contemporaries including F.R. Higgins, John Hewitt, W.R. Rodgers, Austin Clarke, Patrick Kavanagh, John Montague, and Richard Murphy are traced against the persistent rhetoric of cultural and geographical attachment at large in Irish poetry and criticism during the period. These comparative readings are framed by accounts of MacNeice's complex relationship with the oeuvre of W.B. Yeats, which forms a meta-narrative to MacNeice's broader engagement with Irish poetry. Yeats is shown to have been MacNeice's contemporary in the 1930s, reading and reacting to the younger poet's work, just as MacNeice read and reacted to the older poet's work. But the ongoing challenge of the intellectual and formal complexity of Yeats's poetry also provided a means through which MacNeice, across his whole career, dialectically developed various modes through which to confront modernity's cultural, political and philosophical challenges. This book offers new and revisionary perspectives on MacNeice's work and its relationship to Ireland's literary traditions, as well as making an innovative contribution to the history of Irish literature and anglophone poetry in the twentieth century.

Author : Louis MacNeice
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780571049851
Total Pages : 575 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Collected Poems written by Louis MacNeice and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Louis MacNeice
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Poetry of W. B. Yeats written by Louis MacNeice and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1979 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poet Louis MacNeice's pioneering critical study of W. B. Yeats was undertaken in 1939, shortly after the death of Yeats, and published early in 1941, in time of war - as an attempt to disentangle MacNeice's own feelings about the elder poetic statesman and compatriot, but also to investigate the reality of poetry at a historical moment when its uses seemed most tenuous. As Richard Ellmann remarked: 'MacNeice's book on Yeats is still as good an introduction to that poet as we have, with the added interest that it is also an introduction to MacNeice. It discloses a critical mind always discontented with its own formulations, full of self-questionings and questionings of others, scrupling to admire, reluctant to be won. Yet mistrust of Yeats is overcome by wary approval, in a rising tone of endorsement'. MacNeice's study succeeded in delineating those aspects of Yeats that remain central to discussion of the poet today.

Author : Alan Gillis
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0199277095
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Irish Poetry of the 1930s written by Alan Gillis and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2005-06-23 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irish Poetry of the 1930s offers a provocative new take on Irish literary history and modern poetry. It gives detailed and vital readings of the major Irish poets of the period, including exciting new analyses of Samuel Beckett, Patrick Kavanagh, Louis MacNeice, and W. B. Yeats.

Author : Louis MacNeice
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blind Fireworks written by Louis MacNeice and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Louis MacNeice
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780571207107
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Louis MacNeice written by Louis MacNeice and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this series, a contemporary poet advocates a poet of the past or present whom they have particularly admired. By their selection of verses and by the personal and critical reactions they express, the selectors offer intriguing insight into their own work.