'I would have a poet able bodied, fond of talking, a reader of the
newspapers, capable of pity and laughter, informed in economics,
appreciative of women, involved in personal relationships, actively
interested in politics, susceptible to physical impressions.'
Louis MacNeice's prescription is designed to look ordinary, rather
than esoteric, but very little poetry can claim to meet these
specifications, stringent in their very wideness. MacNeice's work
matches the world he famously described as 'incorrigibly plural.'
Michael Longley, himself a distinguished Ulster poet, has written an
introductory essay of meticulous advocacy. His wife, the critic Edna
Longley, has supplied the apparatus for students and the general
reader.
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ISBN
9780571263523
Publisert
2015
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Faber & Faber
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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