The Ticking Fear
John Kerrigan: Louis MacNeice, 7 February 2008
Louis MacNeice: Collected Poems
edited by Peter McDonald.
Faber, 836 pp., £30, January 2007,978 0 571 21574 4 Show More
edited by Peter McDonald.
Faber, 836 pp., £30, January 2007,
Louis MacNeice: Selected Poems
edited by Michael Longley.
Faber, 160 pp., £12.99, April 2007,978 0 571 23381 6 Show More
edited by Michael Longley.
Faber, 160 pp., £12.99, April 2007,
I Crossed the Minch
by Louis MacNeice.
Polygon, 253 pp., £9.99, September 2007,978 1 84697 014 6 Show More
by Louis MacNeice.
Polygon, 253 pp., £9.99, September 2007,
The Strings Are False: An Unfinished Autobiography
by Louis MacNeice, edited by E.R. Dodds.
Faber, 288 pp., £9.99, September 2007,978 0 571 23942 9 Show More
by Louis MacNeice, edited by E.R. Dodds.
Faber, 288 pp., £9.99, September 2007,
“... the slave-owner’s mind’) or is driven by his childhood sense of abandonment (‘Louis Malone’ was his early pseudonym, ‘Louis M. Alone’) to claim that England is ‘teeming with unwanted/Children who are so many, each is alone’. Yet the poem’s techniques of immediacy set limits to what it can say. Defending Auden, MacNeice wrote that ... ”
