Louis MacNeice and the Poetry of the 1930s

by Richard Danson Brown

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0746311850
• ISBN13: 9780746311851
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.4"