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Louis Macneice Louis Macneice
(1907 - 1963)
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Louis MacNeice was born on September 12, 1907, in Belfast, Ireland. He attended Oxford, where he majored in classics and philosophy. In 1930, he married Giovanna Ezra and accepted a post as classics lecturer at the University of Birmingham, a position he held until 1936, when he went on to teach Gre .. .. more >>

 
 
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1     Autobiography
2     Bagpipe Music
3     Carrickfergus
4     Christina
5     Epilogue
6     House On A Cliff
7     June Thunder
8     Prayer Before Birth
9     Snow
10     Soap Suds
11     Star-Gazer
12     Sunday Morning
13     The Brandy Glass
14     The Suicide
15     The Sunlight on the Garden
16     Wolves
 

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"blind wantons like the gulls who scream
And rip the edge off any ideal or dream."
Louis MacNeice (1907-1963), Anglo-Irish poet. Among These Turf-Stacks (l. 17-18). . . Oxford Book of Modern Verse, The, 1892-1935. William Butler Yeats, ed. (1936) Oxford University Press.
"a fortress against ideas and against the
Shuddering insidious shock of the theory-vendors
The little sardine men crammed in a monster toy
Who tilt their aggregate beast against our crumbling Troy."
Louis MacNeice (1907-1963), Anglo-Irish poet. Among These Turf-Stacks (l. 9-12). . . Oxford Book of Modern Verse, The, 1892-1935. William Butler Yeats, ed. (1936) Oxford University Press.
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Louis MacNeice - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Frederick Louis MacNeice (September 12, 1907 – September 3, 1963) was a British and Irish poet and playwright. He was part of the generation of "thirties ...
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Literary Encyclopedia: Louis MacNeice
Louis MacNeice was born in Belfast, the son of a Church of Ireland clergyman who supported Home Rule; his presence recurs in MacNeice's poems. ...
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Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More - Louis MacNeice
Louis MacNeice was born on September 12, 1907, in Belfast, Ireland. He attended Oxford, where he majored in classics and philosophy. ...
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Louis MacNeice Fact Page
For many readers, Louis MacNeice remains a minor figure in English poetry. His degree from Cambridge and career at the BBC gave him entry to the MacSpaunday ...
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