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,
“... that “the only joy in life is to begin.”’ And Spender, in a late poem, wrote of MacNeice and Bernard Spencer: Each poem Is still a new beginning. If They had been finished though they would have died Before they died. MacNeice did have favourite forms and topics, and often flogged them hard. When he tried to break new ground, he was by no means always ... ”