Here is a personal, social, and intellectual history of a major writer who explains himself and h...

I go the zoo half because I like looking at the animals and half because I like looking at the pe...

'First published by Faber and Faber Limited, London'--Title page verso.

Faber are pleased to announce the relaunch of the poetry list - starting in Spring 2001 and conti...

''I would have a poet able bodied, fond of talking, a reader of the newspapers, capable of pity a...

Louis MacNeice (1907-1963) is rightly regarded as one of the foremost Irish poets of this century...

The Burning Perch

In the decades since his death in 1963, Louis MacNeice''s reputation as a poet (and, indeed, amon...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledg...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledg...

The Burning Perch

In the summer of 1936, W. H. Auden and Louis MacNeice visited Iceland on commission to write a tr...