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Louis MacNeice and the Poetry of the 1930s
Richard Danson Brown
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Paperback. Series: Writers & Their Work S. Num Pages: 128 pages, frontispiece. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (UA) A / AS level; (UF) Further/Higher Education; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 240.
This study investigates Louis MacNeice in two major central strands. Firstly, it explores MacNeice’s ambiguous positioning as an Irish poet. As the Ulster-born son of a Home Rule supporting Protestant bishop, MacNeice straddles rival cultural and ideological territories without ever fully committing to either. A sense of dislocation and homelessness underwrites MacNeice’s poetry which makes it resistant to nationalistic appropriation and encourages his readers to see him more as an international poet. Secondly, this study presents MacNeice as a critically self-conscious writer; his readiness to explain his work helps to account for his influence on later poets. By virtue ... Read more
This study investigates Louis MacNeice in two major central strands. Firstly, it explores MacNeice’s ambiguous positioning as an Irish poet. As the Ulster-born son of a Home Rule supporting Protestant bishop, MacNeice straddles rival cultural and ideological territories without ever fully committing to either. A sense of dislocation and homelessness underwrites MacNeice’s poetry which makes it resistant to nationalistic appropriation and encourages his readers to see him more as an international poet. Secondly, this study presents MacNeice as a critically self-conscious writer; his readiness to explain his work helps to account for his influence on later poets. By virtue ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Northcote House Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780746311851
SKU
V9780746311851
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About Richard Danson Brown
Richard Brown is a Lecturer at The Open University. His publications include The New Poet: Novelty and Tradition in Spenser’s Complaints (Liverpool University Press, 1999) and Debating Twentieth-Century Literature: The Cherry Orchard to Labyrinths (Routledge, 2004).
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