Louis MacNeice - poet, classicist, broadcaster and lover of women - had a complicated relationship with his native country, writes Mary Russell, in advance of the centenary of his birth Right outside ...

Louis MacNeice, who died in London September 3 at the age of 55, spent a good portion of his later poetical career avoiding some of the melodramatic excesses of diction that first typified his fame.

Written in 1945, Louis MacNeice’s play delves into the trauma of war and the poet’s personal shadows, and was an inspired collaboration with Benjamin Britten. Now Robin Brooks is set to restage the ...

"MacSpaunday" was the dismissive nickname once given to the seemingly interchangeable poets of the 1930s: Louis MacNeice, Stephen Spender, W.H. Auden, and Cecil Day-Lewis. This oft-repeated jibe ...

He is one of Northern Ireland's best-known poets but Louis MacNeice was also a BBC radio producer. And one of his productions made in the wake of the Belfast Blitz is being brought back to life to ...

He spent most of his life in London, yet he became one of Northern Ireland's best known and most celebrated poets. Born on 12 September 1907, Louis MacNeice had an early life marred by the loss of his ...

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Just to get this out of the way: reviewers of letters are obliged at some point to lament the medium’s decline, and to regret that, in an age of email and Twitter, we can no longer expect the kind of ...

Where the wild things star. By Robert Hanks Zoo Louis MacNeice Faber Finds, 256pp, £15 To the 21st-century visitor, London Zoo can seem a tamed and shabby place. It’s not just the poverty that seems ...

A richly described Victorian painting of a harvest scene is full of innocent joy, shadowed by what history would soon bring to the fields of northern France Other lives: Teacher of literature, ...

Madam, - As chair of the committee for the Louis MacNeice Centenary Conference and Celebration (Queen's University, September 12-15th last), I question the alleged lack of centenary buzz in what ...