The burning perch
Louis, MacNeice
Faber (1963)
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Hardcover 0571207596
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Nationality British
Pub Place London
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Cover Price $11.95
No. of Pages 58
First Edition Yes
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Links Amazon UK
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Conflict WW2
Notes
These were the poems that Macneice wrote while based in London during the Blitz


Louis MacNeice (1907-63)
Poetry Archive Studied at Merton College, Oxford. Autumn Journal (1939) written during the Munich crisis. Published two major collections, Plant and Phantom (1941) and Springboard (1944) while working full-time for the BBC.

See "louis Macneice's War" by Peter McDonald in Oxford Handbook of Briitsh and Irish War Poetry

He published three books during the war, Two were written prior to the war and the last was written during the war

Plant and Phantom,
Spring Board
The Burning Perch