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What does poetry mean? A talk with Michael Odom | Call of the Siren by Call of the Siren (2013/05/21 16:39)
My great passions are usually lyric poets, often canonical (recently Louis MacNeice) or translations (Salvador Espriu). Of contemporaries, I believe Anne Carson and Alice Notley (The Descent of Alette) are essential.
Mischiefs and Mishaps of a Young Writer: 11/100 by Natalie Ilsley (2013/05/21 16:15)
We are all human after all and bound by our mistakes, but it is the capacity to accept mistakes that make us the people we are today. Thus, brings me to Louis MacNeice. In his poem 'Snow' he encapsulates a striking sense of ...
Let's All Write an Eclogue! | Paulus Torchus by Paul Mathers (2013/05/19 21:28)
Here is an example: Eclogue by a Five-barred Gate. by Louis MacNeice. Well, I dreamt it was a hot day, the territorials. Were out on melting asphalt under the howitzers, The brass music bounced on the houses. Come I heard cry as it were a water-nymph, come and fulfil me. And I sped floating, my feet plashing in the tops ... But now I am giving away the content of the poem. So, here are the two doctors self-deconstructing in my eclogue. Eclogue on Anti-Intellectualism ...
velo-gubbed legs: Louis MacNeice by nmj (2013/05/19 16:06)
I recently read that the poet Louis MacNeice had been sent by the BBC to India in 1947 to report on Partition. I knew his name, of course, but was not familiar with his work (I don't read much poetry, shame on me!). Tonight ...
Bagpipe Music: Louis MacNeice | Ratiocinativa by layanglicana (2013/05/19 02:01)
Like this: Like Loading... This entry was posted in Poetry and tagged Depression, government, Helena Blavatsky, Life, Louis MacNeice. Bookmark the permalink. ← Beauty: Jean Kerr ...
The Conquest of Everest to screen at The Film Archive | Voxy.co.nz by Fuseworks Media (2013/05/13 16:14)
Poet Louis MacNeice's commentary captures the tension and physical struggle of the climb, and adds romance and emotion to the spectacular photography. The film foregrounds small human details - the father and son team ...
Impure Thoughts by Matt Howard – The EarthLines Review by Sharon Blackie (2013/05/10 22:59)
I've been thinking about Louis MacNeice, writing in the 1930s, his plea for an impure poetics appears particularly relevant to our wider cultural and historical moment: '… poets [writing in a time of crisis] should write honestly, ...
Irish Roots in Poetry in the 20th Century | Elaine's Pen by eod23 (2013/05/09 11:32)
In this essay I will consider this statement in the works by three Irish poets: Louis MacNeice, Samuel Beckett and Patrick Kavanagh, to ascertain to what extent the Irish identity defines their work. In doing this, we will look at ...
Spiral Bound | University of Cambridge Museums by camunivmuseums (2013/05/09 06:26)
As an English graduate, I begin with a poem, Louis Macneice's 'The British Museum Reading Room'. Although the line 'Some are too much alive and some are asleep' might seem the most appropriate to a school trip to the ...
Jim Greenhalf: Ola, Ola, Ola... by Jim Greenhalf (2013/05/06 08:21)
The penultimate poem in Louis MacNeice's Autumn Journal begins in Spain and ends in Barcelona in December 1938. The Spanish Civil War is only ever a backdrop to MacNeice's soul-searching quest for connection ...
Patrick Comerford: 'The poet as theologian, the theologian as poet ... by Patrick Comerford (2013/05/06 03:30)
The strand at Dugort on the north coast of Achill Island … it may have given the name to Louis MacNeice's poem, 'The Strand,' one of the poems known as “MacNeice's Achill Poems” (Photograph: Patrick Comerford, 2013) ...
Literature Of Birmingham - Wallsportfolio | Wallpapers by admin (2013/05/06 01:28)
Arthur Conan Doyle worked in the Aston area of Birmingham whilst poet Louis MacNeice lived in Birmingham for six years. It was whilst staying in Birmingham that American author Washington Irving produced several of his ...
Featured poet | Tillman Asquith | leopardpoetry by theleopard66 (2013/05/01 14:41)
He had some success as a poet in his early 20s and has returned to poetry in recent times. He divides his time between Brown Edge and South Shropshire. Favourite poets are Louis Macneice, Denis Walcott, John Betjemen, ...
'Downloads Selected Poems of Louis MacNeice ebook ... by beatrizjacobus (2013/04/29 08:44)
Selected Poems of Louis MacNeice book download. Download Selected Poems of Louis MacNeice MacNEICE: Amazon.com: Books Selected Poems. Anyway I learned a lot... Selected Prose of Louis MacNeice: Louis ...
Bermuda Poet To Participate In MacNeice Tribute | Bernews.com by Bernews (2013/04/26 05:22)
Bermudian poet Paul Maddern will participate in an upcoming Belfast tribute commemorating the 50th anniversary of celebrated Irish poet Louis MacNeice's.
Wake: Up to Poetry: Historic Photograph Featuring Louis MacNeice ... by WFU Press (2013/04/17 09:19)
If you're looking to be the owner of a rare literary moment in history, look no further! This iconic photograph shows the five men congregating at a party organized by their publisher, Faber and Faber. Taken in 1960 by ...
The Tara Poetry Blog: Louis MacNeice "Dublin" by Frank (2013/04/14 05:12)
If I remember right I think Ronnie Drew of the Dubliners used a verse or two of this poem as an introduction to a song back a long time ago and the name of which escapes me at the moment, but I came across this version ...
Self Reponse to Prayer Before Birth Louis Macneice - A Good ... by Lillian Lewis (2013/04/11 09:34)
Self Reponse to Prayer Before Birth Louis Macneice. A great verse form does not need superb school text; it needs superb use of poetic techniques and a grave structure. Prayer before birth is a fine example of a good poem; ...
edStuff: meeting point - louis macneice by techne (2013/04/03 05:52)
Can verify in the body's peace. God or whatever means the Good. MacNeice, Louis. "Meeting Point" Scanning the Century: The Penguin Book of the Twentieth Century in Poetry. Peter Forbes, Ed. London: Penguin Books, ...
The PIP (Project for Innovative Poetry) Blog: THE AUDEN GROUP ... by greenintegerblog (2013/03/24 09:00)
All the poets knew one another, and most had been educated at either Oxford or Cambridge, all sharing vaguely left-wing viewpoints, although one of the group, Louis MacNeice was highly suspicious of Communism.
Aftermath, Louis MacNeice | angrysampoetry by angrysampoetry (2013/03/23 04:43)
I picked up a couple of Louis MacNeice books when I was down in Brighton recently. MacNeice was the son of a Northern Irish protestant rector and grew up in Carrickfergus although he was sent, aged 10, to English ...
The PIP (Project for Innovative Poetry) Blog: W. H. Auden by greenintegerblog (2013/03/21 07:49)
At Oxford Auden met Cecil Day Lewis, Louis MacNeice, and Stephen Spender, as well as meeting up again with his childhood friend, Isherwood. The four writers would often be associated later with what would be called “the ...
Louis MacNeice and Birmingham « Writing the Region: Exploring ... by hallsun (2013/03/18 04:28)
Louis MacNeice and Birmingham. Mar18 by hallsun. Louis MacNeices' poetic style can be, at times, quite dense and obscure, while at the same time inviting us in with its seeming familiarity. His depictions of Birmingham and the city in the ...
Snow, by Louis MacNeice | In the Dark by telescoper (2013/03/13 02:28)
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World “Incorrigibly plural”: what in the world? | The Art of Mindful ... by Tom D'Evelyn (2013/03/07 09:43)
The foregrounding of words by mis-use: world without article, sudden as a stem for an adverb– this is the “new,” the “modern,” poetry of the 1930s. And yet Louis MacNeice's sense of “world” seems both inside and outside the ...
Week 18: Perdita, by Louis MacNeice | David Sutton by davidjsutton (2013/03/02 07:44)
Perdita. The glamour of the end attic, the smell. Of old leather trunks – Perdita, where have you been. Hiding all these years? Somewhere or other a green. Flag is waving under an iron vault. And a brass bell is the herald of ...
Wake: Up to Poetry: From Rolling Wheels to Menacing Seas: The ... by WFU Press (2013/02/21 04:08)
Of all the collected editions we have published, the lifetime work of Louis MacNeice stands out in our catalogue for two reasons. First, his far-reaching legacy has been a transformative influence upon many of our poets, ...
Boston MLA: Public poetry; paintings & photos in films & novels ... by ellenandjim (2013/01/31 22:58)
289, Jan 4th, Friday noon-1:15 pm) where I heard intelligent discussions and poetry read aloud beautifully either by the speaker or the poet on TV or tape: Emily Bloom on Louis MacNeice's autobiographical poem, Autumn ...
margaret-cooter: Poetry Thursday - Snow by Louis Macneice by Margaret Cooter (2013/01/31 13:57)
Louis Macneice (1907-1963) was born in Belfast and educated in England (Sherborne and Oxford), and went on to have rather an interesting life; his work "was widely appreciated by the public during his lifetime, due in part ...
Quondam Poetics: From Prayer before Birth, Louis MacNeice ... by Jemmy Farmer (2013/01/30 15:27)
The bloggings of the poet Jemmy Farmer (by Jemmy Farmer - The Boi Poet) ... stoat or the club-footed ghoul come near me. I am not yet born; console me. … via Quondam Poetics: From Prayer before Birth, Louis MacNeice.
Prayer Before Birth: Louis Macneice | Being Special by Melanie Ryding (2013/01/27 14:14)
Prayer Before Birth: Louis Macneice · 27 Jan. I studied this poem when I was at school and I thought it was excellent. It is a poem that highlights all the evils and deplorable things that happen in our society and how they might influence a child, ...
Irish Poets who are Often Overlooked – Louis MacNeice | The Poetry ... by admin (2013/01/21 10:59)
Indoors the tang of a tiny oil lamp. Outdoors / The winking signal on the waste of sea. / Indoors the sound of the wind. Outdoors the wind. / Indoors the locked heart and the lost key. / Outdoors the chill, the void, the siren.
Stillcraic: Tuesday Poem - Snow by Louis MacNeice by Jennifer Compton (2013/01/20 13:21)
Tuesday Poem - Snow by Louis MacNeice. Snow The room was suddenly rich and the great bay-window was Spawning snow and pink roses against it Soundlessly collateral and incompatible: World is suddener than we ...
Soap suds - Poetry By Heart by poetrybyheart (2013/01/07 10:26)
Louis MacNeice. Soap suds. This brand of soap has the same smell as once in the big. House he visited when he was eight: the walls of the bathroom open. To reveal a lawn where a great yellow ball rolls back through a hoop. To rest at the ...
Poem a Day: Louis MacNeice by Stephanie Green (2012/12/31 12:23)
This blog was prompted by my son (in his twenties) wanting to get more seriously into poetry and asking me to recommend some poems. Where to begin? So this is primarily for him, but I hope other readers might enjoy it too.
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ALL ABOUT READING: Prayer Before Birth by Louis MacNeice by KumarVikram (2012/11/11 02:39)
Here I reproduce a marvellous poem by Louis MacNeice, a great under-estimated and under-read poet having lingered under the shadow of Eliot and more under W. H Auden, getting ritually clubbed with Stephen Spender ...
Incorrigibly Plural: the reinvention of Louis MacNeice - Lady Godiva ... by Liam Guilar (2012/11/09 23:23)
"Incorrigibly Plural celebrates the diversity and vitality of Louis MacNeice's writing. Poets and critics illuminate the work of a writer whose achievement and influence is increasingly recognised as central to modern poetry in ...
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Poem Appreciation #11 - The Sunlight on the Garden (Louis ... by Michael Cantor (2012/10/27 11:11)
by Louis MacNeice / The sunlight on the garden / Hardens and grows cold, / We cannot cage the minute / Within its nets of gold; / When all is told / We cannot beg for pardon. / Our freedom as free lances / Advances towards its ...
Louis MacNeice poet | Belfast Snapper by phosphorylase (2012/10/22 12:19)
Louis MacNeice (known as Freddie until his teens, when he adopted his middle name) was born in Belfast, the youngest son of John Frederick and Elizabeth Margaret (“Lily”) MacNeice. Both were originally from the west of ...
Heavens above – great poetry is written in the stars | York Mix by Carole Bromley (2012/10/03 22:40)
In his 1963 poem Star-gazer Louis MacNeice was writing: it was a brilliant starry night And the westward train was empty and had no corridors So darting from side to side I could catch the unwonted sight Of those almost ...
Prognosis by Louis MacNeice : Poetry Magazine by unknown (2012/10/01 05:09)
This poem originally appeared in the May 1940 issue of Poetry. See it in its original context.
Louis MacNeice--Selected Poems | The Master List by Eric Casero (2012/09/22 21:23)
MacNeice's poetry is marked by clear, crisp imagery and thoughtful, but not obtuse poetic content. He and Spender also seem to point in some ways toward the confessional poets, since they both write autobiographical ...
Remembering the poet's poet – Louis MacNeice. WSJ. | PLUNDER ... by Adlestrop (2012/08/27 05:02)
Nearly a half-century after his death, Louis MacNeice still holds on to his particular place in English poetry. Indeed, he may be more important for today's poets than he was when he died, at age 55, in 1963. At the time, the ...
The Stone and the Star: 'Perdita' and Louis MacNeice's Incorrigible ... by Clarissa Aykroyd (2012/08/15 16:31)
I have just ordered Incorrigibly Plural, a collection of essays and reminiscences about Louis MacNeice - along with two or three other poetry books; how incorrigibly plural of me. I am not sure I really need to plunge into any ...
The Cyclist – Louis MacNeice | Meanderings along the narrow way by hopeeternal (2012/07/23 04:00)
Louis MacNeice (1907–1963) Irish poet and playwright, born Frederick Louis, although he dropped his first name on leaving Marlborough School. He was one of a group of 1930s poets, including W H Auden, Stephen ...
Introducing Louis MacNeice | Éadaoín Lynch by eadaoinlynch (2012/06/30 17:07)
Along with Auden, Stephen Spender and Cecil Day-Lewis, MacNeice was branded as a '30s poet' of the 'Macspauday group' — 'Macspaunday' being a scathing label applied to left-wing poets of the post-Modernist ...
Louis MacNeice trapped overnight at flower show | christopher james by christopherjamespoet (2012/05/03 13:22)
It's like a scenario supplied at a creative writing workshop or a bizarre Sunday tabloid headline. However in his amusing and unusual late poem, Flower Show (1961), the Anglo Irish poet Louis MacNeice examines precisely ...
Tuesday Poem – Aubade (Louis MacNeice) | Elizabeth Welsh by Elizabeth (2012/04/30 05:44)
This week's Tuesday Poem is from Irish poet & playwright, Louis MacNeice. This is one of MacNeice's poems that I always turn back to, one where I remember the lines and, more importantly, can feel that looming feeling of ...
Coming to Terms with Death | SevenPonds Blog by Kelly Larsen (Blog Writer, SevenPonds) (2012/04/02 00:00)
Louis MacNeice's “Sunlight on the Garden” can be interpreted in many different ways. Some view it as a war poem, others as a poem about love. I personally read it as a poem about accepting death. The narrator struggles ...
Patrick Comerford: Poem for Lent (23): 'Sunday Morning,' by Louis ... by Patrick Comerford (2012/03/17 23:00)
Down the road someone is practising scales, / The notes like little fishes vanish with a wink of tails, / Man's heart expands to tinker with his car / For this is Sunday morning, Fate's great bazaar; / Regard these means as ends, ...
Patrick Comerford: Poem for Lent (17): 'Autobiography,' by Louis ... by Patrick Comerford (2012/03/11 23:00)
Recently, The Irish Times invited me to review Solitary and Wild, David Fitzpatrick's new biography of Bishop Frederick MacNeice, father of the poet Louis MacNeice (1907-1963). Frederick Louis MacNeice (1907-1963) was ...
HERE, WHERE I AM: Louis Macneice, POEM BEFORE BIRTH by Kathryn Stripling Byer (2012/02/26 09:13)
I am not yet born; O hear me. / Let not the bloodsucking bat or the rat or the stoat or the / club-footed ghoul come near me. / I am not yet born, console me. / I fear that the human race may with tall walls wall me, / with strong ...
The Stone and the Star: Louis MacNeice's 'Entirely': Some Days You ... by Clarissa Aykroyd (2012/02/02 15:35)
I absolutely love Louis MacNeice, I was doing some research about him in college, trying to translate his poetry to Portuguese (it's just so difficult...) And I actually had a similar experience with MacNeice. I guess great poems ...
Louis MacNeice's 'Snow': A Poem About Being Alive by Clarissa Aykroyd (2011/11/18 14:11)
Wonderful—thanks for bringing this. / Doesn't it seem that Section VI of Geoffrey Hill's “The Triumph of Love” is something like a bleak inversion of MacNeice's imagery in “Snow,” perhaps an intentional rebuttal to MacNeice's ...
O'Connell Bridge, Louis MacNeice and Poetic Echoes by Clarissa Aykroyd (2011/10/31 12:58)
I've been reading Louis MacNeice, who was Anglo-Irish - or an Irishman who spent much of his life in England, or who turned his back on Ireland - depending who you ask. I came across his poem 'O'Connell Bridge', which ...
Louis MacNeice, 'Passage Steamer' - Mark McGuinness|poetry by Mark McGuinness (2011/07/30 03:53)
One of my favourite bits of MacNeice: Upon the decks they take beef tea, Who are so free, so free, so free, But down the ladder in the engine-room (Doom, doom, doom, doom.) The great cranks rise and fall, repeat,
George Szirtes: PBS: Carol Ann via Louis MacNeice... by George S (2011/04/09 03:24)
PBS: Carol Ann via Louis MacNeice... In today's Guardian (link to come): A CUT BACK Carol Ann Duffy It's no go the LitFest, it's no go up in Lancaster, though they've built an auditorium (still quite wet, the plaster) a bar, a ...
Ampersand: 'Les Sylphides' by Louis MacNeice (1939) by Noel Duffy (2011/02/25 06:41)
After the restrained tenderness of Thomas' 'A Marriage', it's interesting to come to a Louis MacNeice poem like 'Les Sylphides', which again deals with the duration of marriage in a short space. Although MacNeice plays with ...
First Known When Lost: Late MacNeice Revisited: "A Hand Beckons ... by Stephen Pentz (2011/01/28 01:10)
In a previous post, I suggested that Louis MacNeice regained his poetic form in the collections published between 1957 (his fiftieth year) and 1963 (the year of his death). That post featured poems from Visitations, which was ...
Philosophy, lit, etc.: Louis MacNeice on the net by praymont (2010/09/06 00:31)
Louis MacNeice, whose reading of 'Prayer Before Birth' you can hear at the Poetry Archive. His letters were published this summer by Faber and are reviewed by David Wheatley in the TLS and by Roy Foster in the Financial ...
Rev: ontological despair and Louis MacNeice | That's How The Light ... by Gerry (2010/08/12 05:06)
A sitcom that dares to explore moral issues, use words like 'ontological' and have its lead character recite lines from a Louis MacNeice poem? This has been the excellent six-part series, Rev. which recently finished on BBC2.
Elizannie: Fanfare for the Makers by Louis MacNeice by Elizannie (2010/07/22 02:18)
In this week's episode [four] some lines were quoted from the poem by Louis MacNeice "Fanfare for the Makers". Despite having taught and lectured on English Literature, I am not really a poetry person and this poem had ...
Louis MacNeice, Nicolaus Pevsner, and the Best of Brit Lit - The ... by Peter Stothard (2010/07/18 19:33)
A look at great reads from the editor of the TLS. This week: the letters of British poet Louis MacNeice, a reconsideration of Elizabeth Barrett Browning as victim and symbol, and the Berkshire volume in the famous Pevsner series.
At Sea In An Open Boat: Louis MacNeice And WR Rodgers by Stephen Pentz (2010/06/06 08:16)
The metaphor of life as a sea voyage is a time-honored one. In these two poems, Louis MacNeice and W. R. Rodgers see it as a perilous voyage in an open boat, amidst looming waves, in an icy sea, beneath a tilting sky .
Louis MacNeice - Selected Poems - edited by WH Auden - Posterous by unknown (2010/03/23 16:05)
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The Last Poem I Loved: “Prayer Before Birth” By Louis MacNeice ... by MIchael Carlson (2010/03/13 11:30)
After years of people telling me that I would love Louis MacNeice, last week I stumbled on “Prayer Before Birth”. In the poem, the notion of the undead, the nosferatu as plague-carrier, the underworld and incarnate evil are not ...
Louis macneice's poetry - Learn English Online, Teach English by Anonymous (2010/03/01 09:47)
Hi, To answer this, one would have to read most of this poetry, and then think about it. I hope you won't be offended if I ask you if you have done this? Best wishes, Clive, Hi can any one tell me what are the major themes of louis macneice's.
#28 “Snow” (Louis MacNeice) | Poetry Countdown by dropo59 (2009/10/13 14:05)
Louis MacNeice's “Snow” is not about love, or death, or animals, or children. Nor is about faith, nor is it about music or language itself. It's about snow and roses, for sure; but it is also about how odd existence is when you think ...
COME BACK EARLY - OR NEVER COME - POEMS AND PROSE by kendrive (2009/06/27 00:04)
This moving poem by Louis MacNeice is about the illness and loss of his mother, who died when he was.
Her Last Call to Louis MacNeice - Detectives Beyond Borders by Peter Rozovsky (2009/03/16 12:37)
Louis Macneice is a wonderful poet - enjoy! March 16, 2009; Blogger Gerard Brennan said... Here's a decent place to start. I'm sure Ade would approve. We did a few of his poems at school, though I'm ashamed to admit I've ...
Autumn Journal, by Louis MacNeice | Vulpes Libris by Guest (2008/11/05 17:37)
At this distance, Louis MacNeice is the clearest-eyed of the Thirties poets: humane, rigorous and never sinking to the shameful trash of `September I, 1939′ or the `conscious acceptance of guilt in the necessary murder'.
Intelliblog: POETRY WEDNESDAY - LOUIS MACNEICE by Nicholas V. (2008/09/03 02:49)
The sunlight on the garden / Hardens and grows cold, / We cannot cage the minute / Within its nets of gold; / When all is told / We cannot beg for pardon. / Our freedom as free lances / Advances towards its end; / The earth ...
Poem of the Day » The Sunlight on the Garden by Louis MacNeice by rinabeana (2008/04/15 04:17)
The sunlight on the garden / Hardens and grows cold, / We cannot cage the minute / Within its nets of gold; / When all is told / We cannot beg for pardon. / Our freedom as free lances / Advances towards its end; / The earth ...
Louis MacNeice - New World Encyclopedia by unknown (2008/04/02 00:00)
Blind Fireworks (1929, mainly considered by MacNeice to be juvenilia and excluded from the 1949 Collected Poems); Poems (1935); Letters from Iceland (1937, with W. H. Auden, poetry and prose); The Earth Compels ...
Poem of the Day » Charon by Louis MacNeice by rinabeana (2008/03/20 04:30)
I'm going to attempt another MacSpaunday quartet of poems. Charon By Louis MacNeice. The conductor's hands were black with money: Hold on to your ticket, he said, the inspector's. Mind is black with suspicion, and hold ...
Volatile Rune: Louis Macneice, Derek Mahon by Frances (2008/02/22 05:16)
I have quite a collection of poetry books but amongst the best thumbed and most worn out is a slim volume of the poems of Louis Macneice selected by Michael Longley. The poet Louis Macneice died young (comparatively) ...
Poem of the Day » Snow by Louis MacNeice by rinabeana (2007/12/14 06:04)
The room was suddenly rich and the great bay-window was / Spawning snow and pink rose against it / Soundlessly collateral and incompatible: / World is suddener than we fancy it. / World is crazier and more of it than we ...
Richard King: The Louis MacNeice Centenary (Sydney Morning ... by Richard King (2007/11/28 21:22)
Though known to English Literature students as the author of some fine anthology pieces ('Snow', 'The Casualty', 'Bagpipe Music'), Louis MacNeice is still regarded as a minor figure in English poetry. Of the factors involved in ...
Writing and Ruminating: Trope and Louis MacNeice — a Poetry ... by Kelly Fineman (2007/11/16 12:14)
I've been reading The Collected Poems of Louis MacNeice over the past several weeks, and I'm finally ready to write my first MacNeice post. Reading a collection of poetry spanning the lifetime of a particular poet is an ...
The Hour of Poetry: Louis MacNeice by August (2007/11/09 11:02)
Louis MacNeice. Autumn Journal [Part XXIV] Sleep serene, avoid the backward. Glance; go forward, dreams, and do not halt (Behind you in the desert stands a token. Of doubt — a pillar of salt). Sleep, the past, and wake, the ...
Missing Louis MacNeice | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk by Christopher Harvie (2007/10/09 01:00)
I was set to meet Louis MacNeice in 1963. My English teacher, Hector MacIver, was his friend, the dedicatee of I Crossed the Minch which in 1938 launched the ribaldries of the poem Bagpipe Music while recording, though ...
The Pet Museum: a poetry selection: louis macneice by curator (2007/10/08 03:22)
I didn't know until just now that one of my favorite passages of cat poetry was written by the British/Irish poet Louis MacNeice. I thought it was Dorothy Sayers. Even so, I find I'd like to share with you these words from his Death ...
Today's poem - Soap Suds by Louis MacNeice - Letters from a Hill ... by Nan - (2007/10/04 17:46)
Soap Suds / This brand of soap has the same smell as once in the big / House he visited when he was eight: the walls of the bathroom open / To reveal a lawn where a great yellow ball rolls back through a hoop / To rest at the ...
LOUIS MACNEICE - POEMS AND PROSE by kendrive (2007/05/21 22:55)
Several people have advised me that they have been unable to play the audio file that accompanied yesterday's poem.
The Poetic Quotidian: Louis MacNeice, "Snow" by noreply@blogger.com (Quotidian Poet) (2007/01/29 20:55)
The room was suddenly rich and the great bay-window was. Spawning snow and pink roses against it. Soundlessly collateral and incompatible: World is suddener than we fancy it. World is crazier and more of it than we think, ...
The Poetic Quotidian: Louis MacNeice, "Train to Dublin" by Quotidian Poet (2006/11/30 20:21)
Our half-thought thoughts divide in sifted wisps. Against the basic facts repatterned without pause, I can no more gather my mind up in my fist. Than the shadow of the smoke of this train upon the grass - This is the way that ...
Gates of Vienna: The Poetry of Louis MacNeice by Baron Bodissey (2006/05/18 20:03)
Some of our readers (I can't remember who they are!) requested sidebar links to my Louis Macneice posts, so I've added them to the template. Just scroll down past the “Important Posts” links and “The Poetry of War” links, and ...
Louis MacNeice - Culture Northern Ireland by unknown (2005/11/18 17:22)
Remembering one of Northern Ireland's most famous poets and broadcasters. Updated: 18/05/2011. Bookmark and Share. Frederick Louis MacNeice was born on September 12, 1907 to John MacNeice, the Rector of Holy Trinity Church on ...
Dubliner in Japan: Louis MacNeice: dangerously good (poem) by dedalus (2004/07/13 06:21)
Louis MacNeice: dangerously good (poem). MacNeice's vision is dark and caustic; he was born in Black Ulster in the first decade of the 20th century and grew up outside the traditions of the (warring) Catholics and ...
The Wondering Minstrels: Dublin -- Louis MacNeice by Sitaram (2003/10/01 06:54)
[Minstrels Links] Poem #MacNeice - more poems by Louis MacNeice Poem #Yeats - poems by William Butler Yeats Poem #41 - "Ireland, Ireland", by Sir Henry Newbolt [Administrivia] Yesterday's commentary had an error in it: ...
The Wondering Minstrels: Meeting Point -- Louis MacNeice by Sitaram (2003/07/14 03:51)
When does a poem know it's finished? Paul Valery said “A poem is never finished, only abandoned”. It appears to me that Louis MacNeice, having hit on a striking format and assembled some great images in 'Meeting Point', ...
The Wondering Minstrels: House on a Cliff -- Louis MacNeice by Sitaram (2002/06/21 03:19)
[Minstrels Links] Poems by Louis MacNeice: Poem #18, Bagpipe Music Poem #521, The Suicide Poem #757, The Sunlight on the Garden Poem #864, Snow Poem #1039, Prayer Before Birth Poem #1062, House on a Cliff ...
The Wondering Minstrels: Prayer before Birth -- Louis MacNeice by Sitaram (2002/04/20 04:14)
The unborn child speaking this dramatic monologue could be any of us. thomas. [Minstrels Links] Louis MacNeice: Poem #18, Bagpipe Music Poem #521, The Suicide Poem #757, The Sunlight on the Garden Poem #864, ...
The Wondering Minstrels: Snow -- Louis MacNeice by Sitaram (2001/08/11 21:50)
[Minstrels Links] Louis MacNeice: Poem #18, Bagpipe Music Poem #521, The Suicide Poem #757, The Sunlight on the Garden W. H. Auden, William Empson, Dylan Thomas, John Betjeman, Philip Larkin: see the Minstrels ...
The Sunlight on the Garden -- Louis MacNeice - The Wondering ... by Sitaram (2001/04/17 05:47)
Sunlight.html Biography: MacNeice, Louis: 1907-63, Irish poet. Educated in England, he became a classical scholar and teacher and later was a producer for the British Broadcasting Corporation. In the 1930s MacNeice allied ...
The Wondering Minstrels: The Suicide -- Louis MacNeice by Sitaram (2000/08/20 10:03)
Louis MacNeice ... -Smitha. We've run one MacNeice poem before, Bagpipe Music: poem #18 For a brief biography and a number of poems see http://members.aol.com/carrickman/macneice.htm. Posted on Sunday, August 20, 2000 ...
The Wondering Minstrels: Bagpipe Music -- Louis MacNeice by Sitaram (1999/02/27 09:52)
This poem is by Louis MacNeice (1907-1963), one of the great modern Scottish poets. It is set in in Scotland in the 1930's, they years of the Depression, years which led up to the Munich crisis if 1938 and the outbreak of WWII ...

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BBC star heads for Gatehouse festival - The Galloway Gazette (2013/05/21 01:41)
BBC star heads for Gatehouse festivalThe Galloway GazettePeter will be performing MacSpaunday, a name ascribed to the influential group of young, left-wing, 1930s poets – Louis MacNeice, Stephen Spender, W H Auden and C Day Lewis – by the jealous right-wing poet Roy Campbell. Chrys Salt, literature ...
The Conquest of Everest At The Film Archive - Scoop.co.nz (press release) (2013/05/13 18:20)
Scoop.co.nz (press release)The Conquest of Everest At The Film ArchiveScoop.co.nz (press release)Poet Louis MacNeice's commentary captures the tension and physical struggle of the climb, and adds romance and emotion to the spectacular photography. The film foregrounds small human details - the father and son team of scientists, close friendships ...and more »
The Scene - Peace Arch News (2013/05/13 15:31)
The ScenePeace Arch NewsIrish poetry is regularly featured the third Wednesday of each month at 'gastro-pub' Slainte by the Pier on Marine Drive, presented by Semiahmoo Arts and the Irish Club. Featured in upcoming evenings will be works by Louis MacNeice, W.B. Yeats, Medbh ...
Adam Smith Theatre, Kirkcaldy Battlefield Band - Herald Scotland (2013/05/12 19:07)
Adam Smith Theatre, Kirkcaldy Battlefield BandHerald ScotlandWhen not accompanying his colleagues on guitar, Sean O'Donnell sang robustly, bringing fellow Irishman Louis MacNeice's Bagpipe Music poem off the page with descriptive colour, and Henderson, as well playing fiddle, pipes and piano, sang a Gaelic ...
Dancing on the dark side - Independent Online (2013/05/07 02:39)
Dancing on the dark sideIndependent OnlineThe programme sheet ignored all this information and used instead lines from Louis MacNeice's poem: “I am not yet born; forgive me. For the sins that in me the world shall commit…” It was highly evident in dis.clo.sure, Joseph's 2011 site-specific ...and more »
Plath's Darkest Sea - Daily Beast (2013/05/03 01:52)
Daily BeastPlath's Darkest SeaDaily BeastA June 23, 1960, portrait by Mark Gerson shows poets Louis MacNeice, T.S. Eliot, Ted Hughes, W.H. Auden, and Stephen Spender. (Courtesy of Bonhams ). "Fog Sheep" as it was first known, started life December 2, 1962. Despite the stricken "dolorous" ...
Outcast doomed by conformity in Hannah Kent's debut - The Australian (2013/04/26 07:25)
Outcast doomed by conformity in Hannah Kent's debutThe AustralianHe learned old Norse to be able to read its sagas, and his trip there with poet Louis MacNeice resulted in one of the 20th century's finest if most eccentric travelogues, 1937's Letters from Iceland. Auden's line is Middle English in origin. Yet the ...and more »
Bermuda Poet To Participate In MacNeice Tribute - Bernews (2013/04/26 05:50)
Bermuda Poet To Participate In MacNeice TributeBernewsBermudian poet Paul Maddern will participate in an upcoming Belfast tribute commemorating the 50th anniversary of celebrated Irish poet Louis MacNeice's death. Being held in conjunction with Ireland's National Poetry Day, the Louis MacNeice Poetry ...
Nonagenarian shines in senior audit coursework - University at Buffalo Reporter (2013/04/25 11:36)
University at Buffalo ReporterNonagenarian shines in senior audit courseworkUniversity at Buffalo ReporterCurrently, he's taking Damien Keane's British Modernism course in the English department, examining the works and impact of English and Irish writers like Christopher Isherwood, Louis MacNeice, Elizabeth Bowen, T.S. Eliot and Samuel Beckett. Right now ...
Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us About Sex, Diet, and How We Live ... - The Guardian (2013/04/23 23:48)
The GuardianPaleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us About Sex, Diet, and How We Live ...The GuardianLouis MacNeice, who wrote this nearly 80 years ago, could be excused a little poetic licence, but it is only 12 years since the distinguished evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould expressed more or less the same idea: "There's been no biological ...and more »

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