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 4Show More Louis MacNeice: Selected Poems edited by Michael Longley.
Faber, 160 pp., £12.99, April 2007, 978 0 571 23381 6Show More I Crossed the Minch by Louis MacNeice.
Polygon, 253 pp., £9.99, September 2007, 978 1 84697 014 6Show More 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 9Show More Show More“... Women are dancing, elemental, untroubled by the clock: compensations for the poet’s unease. Nancy Sharp, who went with him to the Hebrides, and who illustrated I Crossed the Minch, is praised for ‘living like a fugue and moving . . . Like the dazzle on the sea’. Being in love was about stopping time. In ‘Meeting Point’, an escalator pauses, a ...”