Male : Poet, Critic, playwright & translator & BBC Producer. Married Mary Ezra in 1930 (divorced 1937) & Hedli Anderson in 1942. Journalist in Spanish Civil War.

Nationality : N Irish Place of Birth : Belfast

Date of Birth : 1907 Date of Death : 1963 Age : 56

Pseudonyms : Louis Malone

Other Work : Lecturer in Classics at Birmingham University 1930-6. Lecturer in Greek at Bedford College, London 1936-40. Producer and Writer for the BBC 1941-9

Education : Sherborne, Marlborough & Merton College, Oxford (Classics & Philosophy)

1928-1935
(In) Oxford Poetry 1928 (1928 Basil Blackwell)
Blind Fireworks (1929 Gollancz) - 1st book
Roundabout Way (1932 Putnam) - novel as Louis Malone
Poems (1935 Faber) (1937 Random House)

1936-1940
(Trans) The Agamemnon of Aeschylus (1936 Faber) (1937 Harcourt Brace)
Out of the Picture : A Play in Two Acts (1937 Faber) (1938 HB)
Letters from Iceland (1937 Faber) (1937 HB) - with W H Auden
In Defence of Vulgarity (1937)
I Crossed the Minch (1938 Longman) - travel & verse. Nancy Spender
Zoo (1938 Michael Joseph) - Nancy Spender
Modern Poetry : A Personal Essay (1938 OUP)
The Earth Compels : Poems (1938 Faber)
Autumn Journal : A Poem (1939 Faber) (1939 RH)
The Last Ditch (1940 Cuala Press, Dublin) - 450
Selected Poems (1940 Faber)
Poems 1925-1940 (nd. 1940 Random House)

1941-1950
Plant and Phantom (1941 Faber)
The Poetry of W B Yeats (1941 OUP 8/6) - criticism
Meet the U.S. Army (1943 HMSO) - Anon
Springboard : Poems 1941-44 (1944 Faber) (1945 RH)
Christopher Columbus : A Radio Play (1944 Faber)
(Intro) The Golden Ass of Apuleius (1946 John Lehmann)
The Dark Tower & Other Radio Scripts (1947 Faber) - plays
Holes in the Sky : Poems 1944-47 (1948 Faber) (1949 RH)
Collected Poems 1925-48 (1949 Faber) (1949 OUP, US)

1951-1960
(Trans) Goethe's Faust Parts I & II (1952 Faber) (1952 OUP, US)
Ten Burnt Offerings (1952 Faber) (1953 OUP, US)
Autumn Sequel : A Rhetorical Poem of XXVI Cantos (1954 Faber 12/6)
The Other Wing (1954 Faber) - Ariel poem. Michael Ayrton
The Penny that Rolled Away (1954 Putnam) - juvenile
(in UK as "The Sixpence that Rolled Away" 1956 Faber)
Visitations (1957 Faber 10/6) (1958 OUP, US)
Eighty-five Poems (1959 Faber) (1959 OUP, US)

After 1961
Solstices (1961 Faber) (1961 OUP, US)
The Burning Perch (1963 Faber) (1963 OUP, US)
[His last volume of poems]
Selected Poems (1964 Faber) - ed & intro by W H Auden
The Mad Islands & The Administrator (1964 Faber) - plays
Astrology (1964 Aldus) (1964 Doubleday)
The Strings are False (1965 Faber) (1966 OUP, US) - unfinished autobiography
Varieties of Parable (1965 CUP) - lecture
Collected Poems (1966 Faber) (1967 OUP, US) - Edited by E R Dodds
One for the Grave (1968 Faber)
Persons from Porlock & Other Plays (1969 BBC) - intro W H Auden
The Revenant : A Song Cycle for Hedli Anderson (1975 Cuala Press, Dublin) - 350
Selected Prose of ... (1990 OUP £25)
Selected Plays of Louis Macneice (1993 OUP £35) - edited by Alan Heuser & Peter McDonald

READING
William T McKinnon : Apollo's Blended Dream - A Study of the Poetry of Louis MacNeice
(1971 OUP)
Christopher Armitage & Neil Clark : A Bibliography of the Works of Louis MacNeice
(1973 Kaye & Ward)
Terence Brown & Alec Reid : Time Was Away - The World of Louis MacNeice (1974 Dolmen)
Louis Macneice - Sceptical Vision (1975 Gill & Macmillan, Dublin)
Edna Longley : Louis MacNeice - A Critical Study (1988 Faber)
Jon Stallworthy : Louis MacNeice (1995 Faber £20)
(Ed) Kathleen Devine & Alan J Peacock : Louis MacNeice and His Influence
(1998 Colin Smythe £27.50)