In the 1930s, Louis MacNeice showed tremendous promise both as a writer of original plays for the stage and, with The Agamemnon of Aeschylus (1937), as a translator capable of giving new life to Greek...
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Louis MacNeice was widely regarded in the 1930s as a junior member of the Auden-Spender-Day Lewis group: MacNeice and Stephen Spender were contemporaries and friends at Oxford, serving as joint editor...
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The Irish poet Louis MacNeice (1907-1964) claimed himself to be not a theorist but a poetic empiricist. His unfinished autobiography was posthumously published as The Strings Are False.Louis MacNeice ...
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