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Louis MacNeice (1907-63) was a poet and dramatist.
Louis MacNeice was born in Belfast, Ireland in 1907, his family later moved to Carrickfergus, County Antrim. He attended Merton College, Oxford University, 1926-1930, where he met his lifelong friend W.H. Auden. In the 1930s, MacNeice was associated with English poets, W.H. Auden, Stephen Spender, and C. Day Lewis, standing out because of his more casual, colloquial style. MacNeice is best known for his poetry such as Blind Fireworks, The Earth Compels, Autumn Journal, The Last Ditch, Plant and Phantom, Springboard, Holes in the Sky, Ten Burnt Offerings, The Other Wing, Visitations, Eight-five, Solstices, The Burning Perch, and Round the Corner, but also wrote several plays and radio scripts, as well as literary criticism. MacNeice taught at the University of Birmingham, University of London, and Cornell University, served as a feature writer and producer for the BBC, and was the Director of the British Institute, Athens, Greece. In 1957, he was received a Commander of the Order of the British Empire honor. MacNeice died of pneumonia in 1963. MacNeice's influence is still felt today in the poetry of the post-war generation Irish poets, including Michael Longley and Derek Mahon.
English poet.
Louis MacNeice was born in Belfast, Ireland, and educated at Merton College, Oxford. He was a lecturer in English and Greek at various universities, 1930-1940, and a writer and producer for the BBC, 1941-1949 and 1951-1963, and the British Institute, Athens (later merged with the British Council), 1950-1951. As a poet he is usually associated with Auden, Spender, and Day Lewis. He wrote plays for stage, radio, and television, notably The dark tower (1946), and was the author of several works of literary criticism.
Louis MacNeice was a British poet, playwright, literary critic, screenwriter, and translator.
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