Louis MacNeice Context
- Created by: harriet.campion
- Created on: 13-05-19 14:01
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- Louis MacNeice
- Childhood
- 1907 - 1963
- Born in Northern Ireland
- Father was a Protestant minister
- Mother was admitted to hospital with depression when he was 6
- Blamed his mother's cancer on his own difficult birth
- Left behind his accent and faith when he finished school
- Never lost his sense of Irishness
- lonely aand dark
- Poetry
- Friend of WH Auden and Stephen Spender
- Work often mimicked thiers
- Sharp political awareness
- Major influence to contemporary irish poets
- Paul Muldoon
- Friend of WH Auden and Stephen Spender
- Career
- Sent to boarding school in England
- Studies Classics at Oxford
- Lectured at universities
- Prduced programmes for the BBC
- About Britain in the war
- Marriage
- Married twice
- Divorced in 1946
- Wife ran off with someone else
- Had a son by first marriage and daughter by second
- Childhood
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