Louis MacNeice
Irish poet associated with the Auden group whose Autumn Journal is a major long poem of the 1930s. His work is noted for its speed, wit, and personal directness.
Works
- Blind FireworksEarly poetry exploring fragmented images and modernist spiritual searching
- Autumn JournalPoem-journal documenting anxiety and politics of the 1930s-40s in conversational verse
- The Burning PerchLate collection of darkly controlled poems on aging, memory, and approaching death
- Collected PoemsComplete poems of a twentieth-century poet known for wit, intelligence, and craft