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37%OFFLouis Macneice - Letters of Louis MacNeice - 9780571224418 - V9780571224418
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Letters of Louis MacNeice

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Description for Letters of Louis MacNeice Hardback. A resource for an understanding of the intellectual culture of the mid-twentieth century. Editor(s): Allison, Jonathan. Num Pages: 816 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 163 x 60. Weight in Grams: 1320.

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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Faber & Faber London
Number of pages
816
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
816
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571224418
SKU
V9780571224418
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Ref
99-14

About Louis Macneice
Jonathan Allison was born in Belfast and educated at Queen's University, Belfast, University College London and the University of Michigan. He has been a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, and was formerly Director of the W.B.Yeats International Summer School, Sligo. His previous edited books include Yeats's Political Identities (University of Michigan P, ... Read more

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