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22 produkter
Letters from Iceland
Häftad, 2018
198 kr
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In the summer of 1936, W. H. Auden and Louis MacNeice visited Iceland on commission to write a travel book, but found themselves capturing concerns on a scale that were far more international. 'Though writing in a "holiday" spirit,' commented Auden, 'its authors were all the time conscious of a …
Selected Poems
Av Louis MacNeice, Edna Longley m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
185 kr
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'I would have a poet able bodied, fond of talking, a reader of the newspapers, capable of pity and laughter, informed in economics, appreciative of women, involved in personal relationships, actively interested in politics, susceptible to physical impressions.'Louis MacNeice's prescription is …
Autumn Journal
Häftad, 2013
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
150 kr
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Written between August and December 1938, Autumn Journal is still considered one of the most valuable and moving testaments of living through the thirties by a young writer. It is a record of the author's emotional and intellectual experience during those months, the trivia of everyday living set …
Burning Perch
Häftad, 2001
163 kr
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Faber are pleased to announce the relaunch of the poetry list - starting in Spring 2001 and continuing, with publication dates each month, for the rest of the year. This will involve a new jacket design recalling the typographic virtues of the classic Faber poetry covers, connecting the backlist …
Agamemnon of Aeschylus
Häftad, 2008
219 kr
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Louis MacNeice read classics at Oxford, and his professional life began as a lecturer in classics, before his career developed as a poet and broadcaster. Published in 1936 and intended primarily for the stage, MacNeice's version of The Agamemnon was immediately recognised, in the words of T. S. …
Zoo
Häftad, 2013
272 kr
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'I go the zoo half because I like looking at the animals and half because I like looking at the people... The pleasure of dappled things, the beauty of adaptation to purpose, the glory of extravagance, classic elegance or romantic nonsense and grotesquerie - all these we get from the Zoo.'In 1938 …
Collected Poems
Häftad, 2016
382 kr
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In the decades since his death in 1963, Louis MacNeice's reputation as a poet (and, indeed, amongst poets) has grown steadily, and there are now several generations of readers in Ireland, Britain, and beyond, for whom he is one of the essential poets of the twentieth century. His work has also …
Selected Prose of Louis MacNeice
Av Louis MacNeice, Alan Heuser
Inbunden, 1990
2231 kr
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This is the second of two collections of MacNeice's prose writings, prepared by Alan Heuser. The first, concentrating on his literary criticism, came out in 1987 (still available from OUP). The present collection will be of interest to a wider readership, since it covers the sweep of MacNeice's …
Selected Plays of Louis MacNeice
Av Louis MacNeice, Alan Heuser m. fl.
Inbunden, 1993
1514 kr
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Louis MacNeice (1907-1963) is rightly regarded as one of the foremost Irish poets of this century, but he was also a distinctive, gifted, and popular playwright. This unique selection of eight of MacNeice's best-known plays, most of which were written for BBC Radio, draws on the most authoritative …
Making Scenes 3: Short Plays for Young Actors
Indian Summer; Almost Grown; The Ice Palace; The Dark Tower
Av Harwant S. Bains, Richard Cameron m. fl.
Häftad, 1995
413 kr
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Four short plays for young actors Making Scenes 3 is an exciting selection of plays commissioned by the Royal National Theatre for the BT National Connections festival for young actors in 1995. Indian Summer by Harwant Bains; Kulwant returns to India and becomes fascinated with an ice-cream seller …
Dark Tower and Other Radio Scripts
Häftad, 2008
251 kr
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Born in Ireland, Louis MacNeice was sent to England for his schooling, to Marlborough, and then went on to read classics at Oxford. His professional life began as a lecturer in classics but in 1941 he joined the BBC and for the next twenty years produced programmes for the legendary Features …
Poetry of W. B. Yeats
Häftad, 2008
272 kr
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The poet Louis MacNeice's pioneering critical study of W. B. Yeats was undertaken in 1939, shortly after the death of Yeats, and published early in 1941, in time of war - as an attempt to disentangle MacNeice's own feelings about the elder poetic statesman and compatriot, but also to investigate …
Varieties of Parable
Häftad, 2008
254 kr
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In Varieties of Parable, which comprises the Clark Lectures given by Louis MacNeice at Cambridge in 1963, a few months before his death, the poet discusses the significance of 'parable' for the times in which he lived, and implictly for his own poetic. The discussion ranges widely, including Samuel …
Goethe's Faust
Parts 1 and 2
Häftad, 2008
289 kr
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Commissioned by the BBC for the Goethe Centenary in 1949, and originally broadcast in six instalments, Louis MacNeice's translation of Goethe's Faust distills the digressive dimensions of the original - at once a play and an epic poem - into a verse drama for the ear. The translation is almost line …
Collected Poems
E-bok, 2015
263 kr
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In the decades since his death in 1963, Louis MacNeice's reputation as a poet (and, indeed, amongst poets) has grown steadily, and there are now several generations of readers in Ireland, Britain, and beyond, for whom he is one of the essential poets of the twentieth century. His work has also …
Autumn Journal
E-bok, 2015
148 kr
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Written between August and December 1938, Autumn Journal is still considered one of the most valuable and moving testaments of living through the thirties by a young writer. It is a record of the author's emotional and intellectual experience during those months, the trivia of everyday living set …
Selected Poems
Av Louis MacNeice, Edna Longley m. fl.
E-bok, 2015
181 kr
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'I would have a poet able bodied, fond of talking, a reader of the newspapers, capable of pity and laughter, informed in economics, appreciative of women, involved in personal relationships, actively interested in politics, susceptible to physical impressions.'Louis MacNeice's prescription is …
Zoo
E-bok, 2013
197 kr
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'I go the zoo half because I like looking at the animals and half because I like looking at the people... The pleasure of dappled things, the beauty of adaptation to purpose, the glory of extravagance, classic elegance or romantic nonsense and grotesquerie - all these we get from the Zoo.'In 1938 …
Buenos Aires Poetry n°2 (Nueva Época)
Av Chūya Nakahara, Louis MacNeice m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
174 kr
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