Louis MacNeice: Selected Poems

By Louis MacNeice, Michael Longley, Louis Macniece

Book Overview

Wake Forest is pleased to reissue the Selected Poems of Louis MacNeice, one of the pivotal poets of modern times, a significant volume edited by Michael Longley, a Wake Forest poet himself, and a principal poet of the contemporary literary scene. MacNeice has not generally been considered an Irish poet. Jon Stallworthy, his biographer, writes: The Irish poets love MacNeice; they revere Yeats, but they don't like him.... That is sort of interesting in a way, because the Irish for a long time said, 'He's a British poet, so we don't need to bother with him, ' and the British said, 'Well, he's an Irish poet so we don't need to bother with him.' And now they see that he really did straddle the Irish Channel... MacNeice] was very pleased, actually, to discover that his blood came from both the Protestant Irish and also the Roman Catholic Irish...He thought of Ireland as a single country, and he liked to address himself, as he thought, to Irish themes. Louis MacNeice's Selected must be on the shelf of any poetry reader who loves Irish poetry.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0916390381
• ISBN13: 9780916390389
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Wake Forest University Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Love MacNeice

I personally love Louis MacNeice's poetry- this collection has some truly beautiful moments and a few that send chills up you spine with their continuing connection to our world.