MacNeice
Americannoun
noun
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MacNeice then appeared to back-track which sparked a change of direction from Berry, who ruled that there was no conclusive proof after all that Skinner had definitely scored.
From BBC ● Feb. 13, 2024
After Auden, Eliot took on Stephen Spender and Louis MacNeice, and in 1934 proposed a book to Marianne Moore.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 23, 2019
After Thomas’s death, Elizabeth Bishop and Louis MacNeice recorded their sense of loss, in letters to Brinnin that are included in the exhibition.
From New York Times ● Oct. 23, 2014
The title “A Time of Gifts” comes from a line of poetry by Louis MacNeice … “For now the time of gifts is gone / O boys that grow, O snows that melt.”
From Salon ● Feb. 4, 2013
Louis MacNeice in Ten Burnt Offerings describes a much-loved cat, Fluid as Krishna chasing the milkmaids.
From The Loves of Krishna in Indian Painting and Poetry by Archer, W. G.
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