Reveals Aeschylus as a great poet and dramatist of contemporary importance.

Discloses W B Yeat's critical mind, which was always discontented with its own formulations, full...

Offers a translation of 'Goethe's Faust', and distills the digressive dimensions of the original ...

I go the zoo half because I like looking at the animals and half because I like looking at the pe...

Discusses the significance of 'parable' for the times in which the author lived, and implicitly f...

A radio parable play, written in response to the rise of fascism in Germany and the events of Wor...

In the summer of 1936, W. H. Auden and Louis MacNeice visited Iceland on commission to write a tr...

Faber are pleased to announce the relaunch of the poetry list - starting in Spring 2001 and conti...

''I would have a poet able bodied, fond of talking, a reader of the newspapers, capable of pity a...

Written between August and December 1938, Autumn Journal is still considered one of the most valu...

The Strings are False is Louis MacNeice's unfinished autobiography. Described by Geoffrey Grigson...

In the decades since his death in 1963, Louis MacNeice''s reputation as a poet (and, indeed, amon...

It is no longer necessary--and not before time--to 'make a case' for MacNeice as a poet. He had a...