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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