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Subject: MACNEICE, LOUIS (1907-1963)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BRITISH LEFTISH POETRY, 1930-40, by CHRISTOPHER MURRAY GRIEVE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Auden, macneice, day lewis, I have read them all
Alternate Author Name(s): Macdiarmid, Hugh
Subject(s): Auden, Wystan Hugh (1907-1973); Communism; Day Lewis, Cecil (1904-1972); Macneice, Louis (1907-1963); Poetry & Poets


BRITISH LEFTISH POETRY, 1930-40, by CHRISTOPHER MURRAY GRIEVE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Auden, macneice, day lewis, I have read them all
Last Line: You cannot light a match on a crumbling wall
Alternate Author Name(s): Macdiarmid, Hugh
Subject(s): Auden, Wystan Hugh (1907-1973); Communism; Day Lewis, Cecil (1904-1972); Macneice, Louis (1907-1963); Poetry And Poets


IN CARROWDORE CHURCHYARD, by DEREK MAHON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Your ashes will not stir, even on this high ground
Variant Title(s): In Carrowdore Churchyard; At The Grave Of Louis Macneice
Subject(s): Churchyards; Macneice, Louis (1907-1963)


IN CARROWDORE CHURCHYARD, by DEREK MAHON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Your ashes will not stir, even on this high ground
Last Line: Rinsing the choked mud, keeping the colours new
Variant Title(s): In Carrowdore Churchyard; At The Grave Of Louis Macneic
Subject(s): Churchyards; Macneice, Louis (1907-1963)


MORE BAGPIPE MUSIC, by ERIC O. PARROTT    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's all go to claridges, it's all go the champers
Last Line: But we'll not say how we made our pile, for that's another story
Subject(s): Bagpipes; Macneice, Louis (1907-1963); Musical Instruments


ONE MORE NEW BOTCHED BEGINNING, by STEPHEN SPENDER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Their voices heard, I stumble suddenly
Last Line: My hand to them, one more new botched beginning %where we still stand talking in the quad
Alternate Author Name(s): Spender, Stephen (harold), Sir
Subject(s): Macneice, Louis (1907-1963); Poetry And Poets; Spencer, Bernard (1909-1963)


THEIR LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We, wystand hugh auden and louis macneice
Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis
Subject(s): Auden, Wystan Hugh (1907-1973); Macneice, Louis (1907-1963); Poetry And Poets