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Frederick Louis MacNeice CBE (12 September 1907 – 3 September 1963) was an Irish poet, playwright and producer for the BBC. His poetry, which frequently explores themes of introspection, empiricism, and belonging, is considered to be among the greatest of twentieth century literature.
Louis MacNeice was widely regarded in the 1930s as a junior member of the Auden-Spender-Day Lewis group: MacNeice and Stephen Spender were contemporaries and friends at Oxford, serving as joint editors of Oxford Poetry, 1929.
Apr 28, 2017 · The Irish poet Louis MacNeice (1907-63) is often associated with the Thirties Poets, along with W. H. Auden and Stephen Spender. Yet unlike Auden, who left us ‘Stop All the Clocks’, MacNeice can be more difficult to pin down to one or two ‘best poems’ or ‘best-known poems’. ‘Prayer Before Birth’?
Louis MacNeice (born Sept. 12, 1907, Belfast, Ire.—died Sept. 3, 1963, London, Eng.) was a British poet and playwright, a member, with W.H. Auden, C. Day-Lewis, and Stephen Spender, of a group whose low-keyed, unpoetic, socially committed, and topical verse was the “new poetry” of the 1930s.
Louis MacNeice - The Academy of American Poets is the largest membership-based nonprofit organization fostering an appreciation for contemporary poetry and supporting American poets. Louis MacNeice was born on September 12, 1907, in Belfast, Ireland.
Louis MacNeice (1907-1963) was a friend and contemporary of W. H. Auden and Stephen Spender at Oxford and his poetry has often been linked to their own.
Louis MacNeice (1907–1963) was a prolific British poet from Northern Ireland whose work was widely appreciated by the public during his lifetime, due to his relaxed but emotionally aware style.
Snow. By Louis MacNeice. The room was suddenly rich and the great bay-window was. Spawning snow and pink roses against it. Soundlessly collateral and incompatible: World is suddener than we fancy it. World is crazier and more of it than we think, Incorrigibly plural. I peel and portion. A tangerine and spit the pips and feel.
While now remembered—and rightly so—as one of Northern Ireland’s finest poets, Frederick Louis MacNeice C.B.E. had a varied career in academia, prose, criticism, drama, and, from 1941 to 1961, as a Radio Features Producer at the BBC in London, where his work was at its most innovative.
Aug 30, 2013 · He is one of the 20th century’s great poets of loneliness. And yet this aspect of MacNeice can be easy to overlook, in part because he seems (as is frequently said of Auden) entirely...
