Louis macneice a biography

Frederick Louis MacNeice CBE 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.
A biography of the Irish poet, Louis MacNeice, contemporary and friend of W.H. Auden, Stephen Spender and Cecil Day Lewis.
In this compelling new study of one of the century's most memorable poets, Jon Stallworthy has produced an outstanding full-scale biography of Louis MacNeice.

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Louis MacNeice

Louis MacNeice was born on September 12, 1907, in Belfast, Ireland. He attended Oxford, where he majored in classics and philosophy. In 1930, he married Giovanna Ezra and accepted a post as classics lecturer at the University of Birmingham, a position he held until 1936, when he went on to teach Greek at Bedford College for Women, University of London. In 1941, he joined the British Broadcasting Company as a staff writer and producer. Like many modern English poets, MacNeice found an audience for his work through British radio. Some of his best-known plays, including Christopher Columbus (1944), and The Dark Tower (1946), were originally written for radio and later published.

Early in his career, MacNeice was identified with a group of politically committed poets whose work appeared in Michael Roberts's anthology New Signatures. MacNeice drew many of the texts for Modern Poetry: A Personal Essay from the New Signature poets. Modern Poetry was MacNeice's plea for an "impure" poetry expressive of the poet's immediate interests and his sense of the nat

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Louis MacNeice

Jon Stallworthy was born on January 18, 1935 in London, England. He served as second lieutenant in the Nigeria Regiment of the West African Frontier Force in the mid-1950s. After completing his national service, he studied English literature at Magdalen College, Oxford University, where he won the Newdigate Prize for his poem The Earthly Paradise in 1958. His first collection of poetry, The Astronomy of Love, was published in 1961. His other collections of poetry include Root and Branch, Hand in Hand, A Familiar Tree, The Anzac Sonata, The Guest from the Future, Rounding the Horn: Collected Poems, Body Language, and War Poet. He received the Wilfred Owen Poetry Award in 2010 in recognition of his sustained body of work as a poet. He also wrote an autobiography entitled Singing School: The Making of a Poet. He wrote biographies about several poets including Wilfred Owen, Boris Pasternak, Alexander Blok, Herbert Read, and Geoffrey Dearmer. His biography of Louis MacNeice won the Southern Arts Literature Prize. He edited several collections of poetry including T

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Louis MacNeice: A Biography - Hardcover

Louis Macneice / Jon Stallworthy

Stallworthy, Jon

Published by London: Faber & Faber, 1995

ISBN 10: 0571160190 / ISBN 13: 9780571160198

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First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Pages tanned as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: xxi, 572 pages: illustrations, portraits; 24 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Subjects: MacNeice, Louis 1907-1963. Biography. Poets, Irish 20th century; Biography. Authors, Irish; Biography. Poets, Irish; Biography. English poetry 20th century History and criticism. Genre: Biography. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 321686

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