Incorrigibly Plural

Louis MacNeice and His Legacy

Fran Brearton, Michael Longley, Fran Brearton, Michael Longley, Edna Longley

• Publisher: Lives and Letters
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN:
  9781847771131
• eBook ISBN:
  9781847775948
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Biographies
• Index: Literature

Illuminating the work of a writer whose achievement and influence is increasingly recognized as central to modern poetry in English, this record is a celebration of the diversity and vitality of Louis MacNeice's writing. With contributions by fellow poets and critics—such as Neil Corcoran, Paul Farley, Leontia Flynn, Derek Mahon, Peter McDonald, and Clair Wills among others—it features a memoir by MacNeice's son, the late Dan MacNeice, and various biographical accounts. More than a retrospective work of criticism, this compilation also offers insight into MacNeice's complex political awareness and his ability to bring historical moments to life.

INDEX

1. Adlington, William, 1
2. Aeschylus, 1
3. Aldington, Richard, 1, 2
4. Allen, Walter, 1
5. Alvarez, Al, 1
6. Andersen, Hans Christian, 1, 2
7. Apuleius, 1, 2
8. Aristotle, 1, 2
9. Auden, W.H., 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20;
   1. Letter to Lord Byron, 1, 2;
   2. ‘Lullaby’, 1;
   3. ‘Night Mail’, 1;
   4. ‘Song of the Beggars’, 1;
   5. ‘The Fall of Rome’, 1

1. Dallas, Alexander, 1
2. Dante, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
3. Day Lewis, Cecil, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
4. De Wint, Peter, 1
5. Dickens, Charles, 1
6. Dobrée, Bonamy, 1
7. Dodds, E.R., 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
8. Donaghy, Michael, 1
9. Dunbar, William, 1
10. Dylan, Bob, 1

1. Ei...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• CONTENTS
• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
• ABBREVIATIONS
• PREFACE
• THE PITY OF IT ALL
• MEMOIRS
• PURE FORM, IMPURE POETRY, AND LOUIS MACNEICE’S LETTERS
• ‘I WILL ACQUIRE AN ATTITUDE NOT YOURS’: WAS FREDERICK MACNEICE A HOME RULER, AND WHY DOES THIS MATTER?
• ON MACNEICE ON TRAINS
• ‘WHAT AM I DOING HERE?’ TRAVEL AND MACNEICE
• MACNEICE AND THIRTIES (CLASSICAL) PASTORALISM
• ECLOGUES BETWEEN THE TRUCULENT
• MACNEICE’S VEHICLES
• ‘WHO WOULD BE LOVED BY A GODDESS?’ MACNEICE, GRAVES, AND THE LYRIC OF CLASSICAL MYTH
• THE PERNING BIRCH: YEATS, FROST, MACNEICE
• ‘THE LADIES WOULD SAY THAT HE LOOKED LIKE A POET’: TOM AND THE SELLING OF LOUIS
• THE LIVES WE LIVE
• TURN AND TURN AGAINST: THE CASE OF AUTUMN JOURNAL
• ‘THE PARROT’S LIE’: AUTUMN SEQUEL AND THE BBC
• ‘BULBOUS TALIESIN’: MACNEICE AND DYLAN THOMAS
• WHEN I THINK OF MACNEICE
• ‘HIS INTURNED EYES’: MACNEICE IN THE WOODS
• ‘COMING UP ENGLAND BY A DIFFERENT LINE’: LOUIS MACNEICE AND PHILIP LARKIN
• THE SAME AGAIN? MACNEICE’S REPETITIONS
• THE SEAL AND THE CAT
• NOTES
• GUIDE TO FURTHER READING
• NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
• INDEX
• About the Author
• A selection of Irish writing from Carcanet Press
• Copyright