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Sorry I had to turn your new article into a redirect, but it was a misspelling of the name of a person for whom there was an existing article. Perhaps you might like to add material to that.

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Irish poet

Louis McNeice was born in Belfast in 1907. He was the son of a Church of Ireland clergyman who later became a bishop and a mother whose mental illness and premature death disturbed the the poet for the rest of his life. Educated in England (Marlborough and Oxford), he lectured in Classics in Birmingham and London. In 1941 he joined the BBC Features Department and was responsible for many classic productions, including his own radio parable-play 'The Dark Tower' (with music by Benjamin Britten). He was for a short period in the 1950's Director of the British Institute in Athens. Louis MacNeice (1907-1963) was a friend and contemporary of W. H. Auden and Stephen Spender at Oxford and his poetry has often been linked to their own. Indeed, along with Auden, Spender and Day Lewis, MacNeice was part of the leading group of poets of social protest of the 1930's. His work is colloquial and ironic, but intellectually distinguished and informed by a real tragic sense. He casts an ironic eye on the politics of Ireland ("I was born in Belfast to the banging of Orange drums") but his love for the country always shines through. His most considerable work is Autumn Journal (1939), a meditation on Munich and the approach of war; but he is also the author of many notable short poems (e.g. The Sunlight In the Garden, Bagpipe Music).

MacNeice died in 1963 from viral pneumonia, reputedly caught while he was exploring a cave for a projected radio programme. He is buried at the C. of I. church, Carrowdore, Co Down.

Michael Longley has described MacNeice's poetry as "a reaction against darkness", his childhood memories of puritanism and rigid ideology fostering in him a contrasting love of light, of the variety and flux of the world as expressed in his famous phrase "the drunkenness of things being various". However, the darkness remained a presence in his work as in this poem 'Prayer Before Birth'.

McNeice's volumes of poetry include Poems, 1925-1940 (1940), Springboard (1945), Holes in the Sky (1948), Ten Burnt Offerings (1952), and Solstices (1961). He also rendered poetic translations of Aeschylus' Agamemnon (1936) and Goethe's Faust (1951).

Bibliography: See his Strings Are False: An Unfinished Autobiography (1966); Collected Poems, ed. by E. R. Dodds (1967); studies by W. T. McKinnon (1971) and D. B. Moore (1972).

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