Collected Poems | Louis MacNeice

Collected Poems | Louis MacNeice

It is no longer necessaryÂ—and not before timeÂ—to Â“make a caseâ€ for MacNeice as a poet. He had a couple of decades of fame, and more of comparative neglect, but his contemporaries read him poorly on the whole, even when they were most appreciative: as a Â“30s poetâ€ or Â“journalist,â€ as the author of a few near-perfect lyrics, and even as a Â“professional lachrymose Irishman.â€ Fortunately, errors of this order no longer need detailed correction. More to the point, it is the generations of poets, in Ireland as well as Britain, who have learned so much from MacNeiceÂ—formally, as well as in other waysÂ—who provide the most potent argument for his poetryâ€™s continuing life. Two Irish poets in particularÂ—Derek Mahon and Paul MuldoonÂ—would be unrecognisable without MacNeiceâ€™s example and influence; and others, from later Irish generations still, are continuing to discover and make creative use of resources in the poems of this writer who died before they were born.
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Country	USA
Brand	Wake Forest University Press
Manufacturer	Wake Forest University Press
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9781930630635
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781930630635
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

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