Autumn Journal: A Poem (Faber poetry)

Autumn Journal: A Poem (Faber poetry)

by Louis Mac Neice (Author)

Synopsis

Written between August and December 1938, this is a record of the author's emotional and intellectual experience during those months; the trivia of everyday life set against the events of the world outside, the settlement in Munich and slow defeat in Spain. Originally published in 1996.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 96
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 02 Nov 1998

ISBN 10: 0571197450
ISBN 13: 9780571197453

Author Bio
Louis MacNeice was born in Belfast in 1907, the son of a Church of Ireland rector, later a bishop. He was educated in England at Sherborne, Marlborough and Merton College, Oxford. His first book of poems, Blind Fireworks, appeared in 1929, and he subsequently worked as a translator, literary critic, playwright, autobiographer, BBC producer and feature writer. The Burning Perch, his last volume of poems, appeared shortly before his death in 1963.