Since his death in 1963, Louis MacNeice's critical standing has risen steadily. This new study addresses the contexts of MacNeice's writings which are of greatest relevance to his place in modern poetry: his problematic, and still controversial relationship with Ireland and his significance for the understanding of the largely English `thirties generation' with which he is often identified. The influence of these contexts upon the nature of MacNeice's poetic development is studied in detail here together with the important questions of his relation to Yeats and Modernism.
The book examines MacNeice's conception of parable as key imaginative response to these influences, and it includes the first study of the poet's revealing and little-known early writings. Peter McDonald demonstrates that MacNeice is a central figure in modern Irish and British poetry of greater substantial complexity than is often thought, and suggests that his through his work we should see its contexts in a challenging new light.
| ISBN: | 9780198117667 |
| Publication date: | 25th April 1991 |
| Author: | Peter McDonald |
| Publisher: | Clarendon Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 241 pages |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Literary studies: poetry and poets |
Since his death in 1963, Louis MacNeice's critical standing has risen steadily. This new study addresses the contexts of MacNeice's writings which are of greatest relevance to his place in modern poetry: his problematic, and still controversial relationship with Ireland and his significance for the understanding of the largely English `thirties generation' with which he is often identified.
Louis MacNeice features in the following genres: Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: poetry and poets
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Louis MacNeice was written by Peter McDonald and published by Clarendon Press
Louis MacNeice has 241 pages
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