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Collected Poems
Louis Macneice
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Description for Collected Poems
Paperback. In the decades since his death in 1963, Louis MacNeice's reputation as a poet has grown steadily, and there are now several generations of readers in Ireland, Britain, and beyond, for whom he is one of the essential poets of the twentieth century. This edition presents MacNeice's poetry more accurately, as well as more fully. Num Pages: 880 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 140 x 217 x 51. Weight in Grams: 1106.
In the decades since his death in 1963, Louis MacNeice's reputation as a poet (and, indeed, amongst poets) has grown steadily, and there are now several generations of readers in Ireland, Britain, and beyond, for whom he is one of the essential poets of the twentieth century. His work has also received increasing attention from academic writers and students. For both readers and critics, the nature of MacNeice's poetic work as a whole is a matter of importance, and the second posthumous Collected Poems, entirely re-edited by Peter McDonald, attempts, for the first time, to print MacNeice's poetry in groupings ... Read more
In the decades since his death in 1963, Louis MacNeice's reputation as a poet (and, indeed, amongst poets) has grown steadily, and there are now several generations of readers in Ireland, Britain, and beyond, for whom he is one of the essential poets of the twentieth century. His work has also received increasing attention from academic writers and students. For both readers and critics, the nature of MacNeice's poetic work as a whole is a matter of importance, and the second posthumous Collected Poems, entirely re-edited by Peter McDonald, attempts, for the first time, to print MacNeice's poetry in groupings ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
New
Number of Pages
880
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571331383
SKU
9780571331383
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About Louis Macneice
Louis MacNeice was born in Belfast in 1907 and educated at Marlborough and MertonCollege, Oxford. His first book of poems, Blind Fireworks, appeared in 1929, and he subsequently worked as a translator, literary critic, playwright, autobiographer, BBC producer and feature writer. The Burning Perch, his last volume of poems, appeared shortly before his death in 1963. Peter ... Read more
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