Publication

1995 - Faber and Faber, London, England

Language

English

Word Count

143,000 words, Guess

Page Count

572 pages

Identifiers

and 5 more
  • LibraryThing1396621
  • Library of Congress Control Number95008891
  • Library of Congress Control Number95001785
  • Better World Books9780571160198
  • Open LibraryOL15370545M

Classifications

  • LCCPR6025.A316 Z944 1995b
  • LCCPR6025.A316 Z944 1995

Description

In this compelling new study of one of the century's most memorable poets, Jon Stallworthy has produced an outstanding full-scale biography of Louis MacNeice, drawing on the testimony of family, friends, lovers, and MacNeice's extensive unpublished correspondence and papers. Stallworthy, whose Wilfred Owen was described by Graham Greene as "one of the finest biographies of our time," has produced another no less remarkable life of an equally haunting figure. MacNeice's mother died when he was seven and Stallworthy shows how his imagination transmuted her ghostly presence, and the powerful presence of his father, into an elemental opposition structuring most of what he would write - from anguished indictments of his native Ireland to poignant love poems.

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Other Editions

  • Louis MacneiceFaber and Faber1995-01-01

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