Denis Donoghue writes about Louis MacNeice, and the thrusting of Shakespeare into touch
Denis Donoghue, 23 April 1987
Selected Literary Criticism of Louis MacNeice
edited by Alan Heuser.
Oxford, 279 pp., £19.50, March 1987,0 19 818573 1 Show More
edited by Alan Heuser.
Oxford, 279 pp., £19.50, March 1987,
“... This is the first of two volumes in which Alan Heuser is making a selection of Louis MacNeice’s occasional writings. The first is mainly his reviews of Classical and modern literature; the second will bring together his fugitive pieces on philosophy, history, travel and autobiography. The currently renewed interest in MacNeice arises from two considerations: one, that he deserves better than to be regarded as merely one of Auden’s acolytes; two, that he may be seen as precursor to the young poets in Northern Ireland who have been making a stir, if not a Renaissance, since 1968 ... ”