Yorke, Liz. Adrienne Rich: Passion, Politics, and the Body. Sage, 1997.
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Louis MacNeice
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Standard Name: MacNeice, Louis
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Education | Adrienne Rich | |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Olivia Manning | They met and married within a few weeks. Reggie Smith, who was home on leave from a job in Bucharest, was a socialist, a charmer, a philanderer, and a feminist (who was later to edit... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Sheenagh Pugh | SP
cites her favourite English-language poet as the Scottish ChaucerianRobert Henryson
. Other favourites include Sir Thomas Wyatt
, George Herbert
, Louis MacNeice
, Louise Glück
, and Edwin Morgan
. SP
has... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Liz Lochhead | The Recitations (poems in which the speaking voice is crucial, most of them sharply Scots-vernacular comments on sexual or gender relations) include the title piece, Bagpipe Muzak, Glasgow 1990. This laments (in a nice... |
| Literary responses | Olivia Manning | Louis MacNeice
, reviewing this book, said it was a mistake for a highbrow writer to attempt a guidebook. Braybrooke, Neville, and Isobel English. Olivia Manning: A Life. Chatto and Windus, 2004. 150 |
| Literary responses | Michelene Wandor | This piece received high praise. The poet and novelist John Wain
in The Sunday Telegraph compared it to Dylan Thomas
and Louis MacNeice
in its attainment of that rarely attained genre, the pure radio work... |
| Occupation | Dorothy Wellesley | |
| Textual Features | Muriel Spark | Her own experience was a continuing source of material and inspiration to MS
. She used actual incidents for stories set in Africa: for one about a white driver who deliberately runs down and... |
| Textual Production | W. H. Auden | WHA
and Louis MacNeice
jointly published Letters from Iceland, a travel book in poetry and prose letters written as a result of their trip to Iceland the previous year. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. Bloomfield, Barry Cambray, and Edward Mendelson. W. H. Auden: A Bibliography 1924-1969. 2nd ed., University Press of Virginia, 1972. 30 “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. |
| Textual Production | W. H. Auden | WHA
wrote film poems or scripts for two famous documentaries made by the General Post Office Film Unit
, Night Mail and Coal Face. Letters from Iceland (below) which appeared in print on 6... |
| Textual Production | Marina Warner | MW
published No Go the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling and Making Mock, a study of images that frighten children. The title alludes to a line in Louis MacNeice
's Bagpipe Music: It's no go... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anne Stevenson | Essays or chapters, some of them controversial, are devoted to Sylvia Plath
, Elizabeth Bishop
, Eavan Boland
, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill
, Dana Gioia
, Seamus Heaney
, Louis MacNeice
, and R. S. Thomas |
Timeline
24 December 1922: The first play written for radio, Phyllis...
Building item
24 December 1922
The first play written for radio, Phyllis Twigg
's The Truth About Father Christmas, was broadcast in the UK by the BBC
.
Harris, Melvin. ITN Book of Firsts. Michael O’Mara Books, 1994.
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Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
364
Collini, Stefan. “Hierophants”. London Review of Books, 6 Sept. 2007, pp. 25-7.
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February 1936: The awesome trio of political theorist Harold...
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February 1936
The awesome trio
Laity, Paul. “The left’s ace of clubs”. Guardian Unlimited, 7 July 2001.
Laity, Paul. “The left’s ace of clubs”. Guardian Unlimited, 7 July 2001.
Texts
Auden, W. H., and Louis MacNeice. Letters from Iceland. Faber and Faber, 1937.