This learn makes a speciality of Louis MacNeice's inventive and important engagement with different Irish poets in the course of his lifetime. It attracts on huge archival learn to discover the formerly unrecognized quantity of the poet's touch with Irish literary mores and networks. Poetic dialogues with contemporaries together with F.R. Higgins, John Hewitt, W.R. Rodgers, Austin Clarke, Patrick Kavanagh, John Montague, and Richard Murphy are traced opposed to the power rhetoric of cultural and geographical attachment at huge in Irish poetry and feedback in the course of the interval. those comparative readings are framed by way of money owed of MacNeice's complicated dating with the oeuvre of W.B. Yeats, which types a meta-narrative to MacNeice's broader engagement with Irish poetry. Yeats is proven to were MacNeice's modern within the Nineteen Thirties, examining and reacting to the more youthful poet's paintings, simply as MacNeice learn and reacted to the older poet's paintings. however the ongoing problem of the highbrow and formal complexity of Yeats's poetry additionally supplied a method by which MacNeice, throughout his entire occupation, dialectically built a variety of modes in which to confront modernity's cultural, political and philosophical demanding situations. This e-book bargains new and revisionary views on MacNeice's paintings and its courting to Ireland's literary traditions, in addition to making an cutting edge contribution to the background of Irish literature and anglophone poetry within the 20th century.
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