Louis MacNeice (1907–1963)
Autore di Lettere dall'Islanda
Sull'Autore
Born in Belfast and raised in Carrickfergus, MacNeice was the son of an Anglican clergyman who became a bishop. His education in English schools and Oxford University made him ill at ease with his Puritan upbringing, but it never caused him to lose his sense of northern Irish roots. At Oxford, mostra altro MacNeice became friends with Stephen Spender and later, W. H. Auden, with whom he collaborated on "Letters from Iceland" (1937). After graduating with a double first, MacNeice accepted a lectureship in the classics at Birmingham University and, after the traumatic elopement of his first wife, at Bedford College of the University of London. He joined the BBC as scriptwriter and producer in 1941 and remained with it for the remainder of his career. He also did an admired translation of Aeschylus's "Agamemnon" and the well-known book "The Poetry of W. B. Yeats" (1941). MacNeice defended his own poetry and that of Auden, Spender, and C. Day Lewis in his book "Modern Poetry" (1938). There he called for an "impure poetry" that would react against the giants of the previous generation by embracing the partisanship that he missed in W. B. Yeats and involvement with life that he found lacking in T. S. Eliot, both of whom had otherwise influenced him. While engaged with personal and political issues of the 1930's, MacNeice maintained a more skeptical stance than many of his contemporaries. His best verse---such as "Valediction" or "Bagpipe Music"---brings wit and strong rhythms to bear on contemporary life and often harks back to scenes of his youth. After joining the BBC, he also wrote more than 150 scripts, of which a dozen radio dramas have been published. An autobiography, "The Strings Are False," was published posthumously in 1966. During his lifetime, MacNeice was overshadowed by Auden, but in recent years, reevaluation of his work has regarded him as a major literary figure. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
Opere di Louis MacNeice
Poems, 1925-1940 8 copie
Springboard 2 copie
Eighty-five poems 1 copia
Sunday Morning 1 copia
The Last Ditch. Poems 1 copia
Oxford poetry, 1929 1 copia
“Bagpipe Music” 1 copia
ルイ・マクニース詩集 1 copia
秋の日記 1 copia
Opere correlate
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 4th Edition, Volume 2 (1979) — Collaboratore — 250 copie
Poetry Speaks Expanded: Hear Poets Read Their Own Work from Tennyson to Plath (2007) — Collaboratore — 151 copie
Great Irish Writing: The Best from the Bell (Classic Irish Fiction) (1978) — Collaboratore — 21 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- MacNeice, Louis
- Nome legale
- MacNeice, Frederick Louis
- Data di nascita
- 1907-09-12
- Data di morte
- 1963-09-03
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Carrowdore's Church of Ireland, Ards, Ireland
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Ireland (birth)
- Luogo di nascita
- Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
- Luogo di morte
- London, England, UK
- Luogo di residenza
- Carrickfergus, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK
Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, UK
London, England, UK - Istruzione
- Sherborne School, Dorset, England, UK
Marlborough College, Wiltshire, England, UK
Oxford University (Merton College) - Attività lavorative
- poet
playwright
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- Opere
- 52
- Opere correlate
- 30
- Utenti
- 1,218
- Popolarità
- #21,082
- Voto
- 3.9
- Recensioni
- 14
- ISBN
- 68
- Lingue
- 4
- Preferito da
- 7