biography
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MacNeice, (Frederick) Louis
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pronunciation:
[muhknees]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1907–63)
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| biography:
| Poet, born in Belfast, NE Northern Ireland, UK. He studied at Oxford, and became a lecturer in Classics at Birmingham (1930–6), and in Greek at the University of London (1936–40). He was closely associated with the new British left-wing poets of the 1930s, especially Auden, with whom he wrote Letters from Iceland (1937). Other volumes include Blind Fireworks (1929), Collected Poems (1949), and Solstices (1961). In 1941 he joined the staff of the BBC. He was the author of several verse plays for radio, notably The Dark Tower (1947), as well as translations of Aeschylus and of Goethe's Faust. |
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