Louis MacNeice Quotes


As things may turn out in the future, people may (though I doubt it) find that their work gives them all the enjoyment - physical, intellectual or aesthetic - which they may require. That certainly is not so now.


Citations

MacNeice, Louis. Modern Poetry: A Personal Essay. Oxford University Press, 1938.

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Louis MacNeice
Louis MacNeice
  • Born: September 12, 1907
  • Died: September 3, 1963
  • Nationality: British
  • Profession: Poet

Frederick Louis MacNeice CBE was an Irish poet and playwright from Northern Ireland, and a member of the Auden Group, which also included W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender and Cecil Day-Lewis. MacNeice's body of work was widely appreciated by the public during his lifetime, due in part to his relaxed but socially and emotionally aware style. Never as overtly or simplistically political as some of his contemporaries, he expressed a humane opposition to totalitarianism as well as an acute awareness of his roots.