← Louis MacNeiceThe Burning Perchby Louis MacNeiceLate collection of darkly controlled poems on aging, memory, and approaching deathFind on Amazon↗About the authorLouis MacNeiceIrish 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.More by Louis MacNeiceBlind FireworksEarly poetry exploring fragmented images and modernist spiritual searching→Autumn JournalPoem-journal documenting anxiety and politics of the 1930s-40s in conversational verse→Collected PoemsComplete poems of a twentieth-century poet known for wit, intelligence, and craft→