LOUIS MACNEICE: THE POET IN HIS CONTEXTS by Peter McDonald ( 9780198117667 )

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LOUIS MACNEICE: THE POET IN HIS CONTEXTS

By:

Peter McDonald

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0198117663

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9780198117667

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Publisher:

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

25 April, 1991

Pages:

252

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This study addresses the contexts of MacNeice's writing which are of greatest relevance to his place in modern poetry. It examines both his problematic relation to Ireland and his significance for the understanding of the largely English "thirties generation" with which he is often identified.

Synopsis:

Since his death in 1963, Louis MacNeice's critical standing has risen steadily. This new study addresses the contexts of MacNeice's writings which are of greatest relevance to his place in modern poetry: his problematic, and still controversial relationship with Ireland and his significance for the understanding of the largely English 'thirties generation' with which he is often identified. The influence of these contexts upon the nature of MacNeice's poetic development is studied in detail here together with the important questions of his relation to Yeats and Modernism. The book examines MacNeice's conception of parable as key imaginative response to these influences, and it includes the first study of the poet's revealing and little-known early writings. Peter McDonald demonstrates that MacNeice is a central figure in modern Irish and British poetry of greater substantial complexity than is often thought, and suggests that his through his work we should see its contexts in a challenging new light.

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