Prof. Christopher J. Fauske
April 2016
This powerful new perspective on MacNeice’s life and work explores his poetry, prose and drama as part of a biographical re-evaluation. Christopher Fauske places the poet’s relationship with Ireland, the Second World War, his father and the key women in his life at its centre, unravelling unprecedented considerations that challenge the critical foundations of this luminary of Irish writing.
Wild Earth. Dublin: Talbot Press, 1950. Pp, 40. Frontispiece portrait of the Author. Very good copy in dust jacket.
This collection is made up of the poems in his first book 'Wild Earth (1907) and of later poems dealing with typical people of the Irish countryside.
Poems include 'A Drover,' 'The Old Woman of the Roads,' and 'She Moved Through the Fair.' The manuscript poem 'The City Clocks' appears in his collection 'Other Lands and Seas.'