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In the decades since his death in 1963, Louis MacNeice''s reputation as a poet (and, indeed, amongst poets) has grown steadily, and there are now several generations of readers in Ireland, Britain, and beyond, for whom he is one of the essential poets of the twentieth century. His work has also received increasing attention from academic writers and students. For both readers and critics, the nature of MacNeice''s poetic work as a whole is a matter of importance, and the second posthumous Collected Poems, entirely re-edited by Peter McDonald, attempts, for the first time, to print MacNeice''s poetry in groupings corresponding closely to the collections published by Faber between 1935 and 1963. This makes it easier to read the poet in the published forms in which he was read by his contemporaries.

In choosing to re-create the environments of MacNeice''s individual volumes of poetry, moreover, this new Collected reflects the opinion that MacNeice works bes

Collected Poems

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      Publisher: Faber & Faber
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 11/3/2016 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780571331383, 978-0571331383
      ISBN10: 0571331386
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      Book Synopsis

      In the decades since his death in 1963, Louis MacNeice''s reputation as a poet (and, indeed, amongst poets) has grown steadily, and there are now several generations of readers in Ireland, Britain, and beyond, for whom he is one of the essential poets of the twentieth century. His work has also received increasing attention from academic writers and students. For both readers and critics, the nature of MacNeice''s poetic work as a whole is a matter of importance, and the second posthumous Collected Poems, entirely re-edited by Peter McDonald, attempts, for the first time, to print MacNeice''s poetry in groupings corresponding closely to the collections published by Faber between 1935 and 1963. This makes it easier to read the poet in the published forms in which he was read by his contemporaries.

      In choosing to re-create the environments of MacNeice''s individual volumes of poetry, moreover, this new Collected reflects the opinion that MacNeice works bes

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