Louis MacNiece

 







Then the cranes and quays fell away and the channel opened into the lough -a single line of lights on each side - like a man stretching his arms and drawing a breath. Cassiopeia was tilted in her deckchair over Antrim; Arcturus over Down’ 

. L MacNeice.


Letters from Iceland Paperback – 1 Nov 2002

by Louis MacNeice (Author), W.H. Auden  (Author)

This highly amusing and unorthodox travel book resulted from a light-hearted summer journey by the young poets Auden and MacNeice in 1936. Their letters home, in verse and prose, are full of private jokes and irreverent comments about people, politics, literature and ideas. Letters from Iceland is one of the most entertaining books in modern literature; from Auden's 'Letter to Lord Byron' and MacNeice's 'Eclogue', to the mischief and fun of their joint 'Last Will and Testament', the book is impossible to resist - a 1930s classic.


some of his radio plays are now online on the BBC I player thing
eg
The Dark Tower is HERE



 
Buried in Carrowdore