Louis MacNeice and the Irish Poetry of His Time

Louis MacNeice and the Irish Poetry of his Time is a key new study on the poetry of Louis MacNeice, one of the major figures in British and Irish poetry in the twentieth-century. It draws on new archival research to suggest ways in which his poetry is closely linked to contemporaneous developments in Irish literature and culture. This is a fresh perspective on the usual critical placement of MacNeice's work in relation to either 1930s British poetry orhis later influence on more recent Northern Irish poets. It also has a lot to say about the reception of Yeats in modern anglophone poetry in Ireland, Britain and beyond. In doing so, it offers a freshcontribution to on the literary history of Ireland and modern poetry more generally too. It is written in a clear and accessible style, balancing close reading of texts to broader historical, conceptual and critical perspectives.