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Born in September 12, 1907 / Died in September 3, 1963 / Ireland / English

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WRITINGS BY THE AUTHOR:
 
 
Selected Books:

  • Blind Fireworks (London: Gollancz, 1929).
  • Roundabout Way, as Louis Malone (London & New York: Putnam's, 1932).
  • Poems (London: Faber & Faber, 1935; New York: Random House, 1937).
  • Out of the Picture (London: Faber & Faber, 1937; New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1938).
  • Letters from Iceland, by MacNeice and W. H. Auden (London: Faber & Faber, 1937; New York: Random House, 1937).
  • Poems 1937 (New York: Random House, 1937).
  • The Earth Compels, Poems (London: Faber & Faber, 1938).
  • I Crossed the Minch (London, New York & Toronto: Longmans, Green, 1938).
  • Modern Poetry (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1938; New York: Haskell House, 1969).
  • Zoo (London: Joseph, 1938).
  • Autumn Journal (London: Faber & Faber, 1939; New York: Random House, 1940).
  • Selected Poems (London: Faber & Faber, 1940).
  • The Last Ditch (Dublin: Cuala Press, 1940).
  • Poems 1925-1940 (New York: Random House, 1941).
  • The Poetry of W. B. Yeats (London, New York & Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1941).
  • Plant and Phantom (London: Faber & Faber, 1941).
  • Meet the U. S. Army (London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1943).
  • Christopher Columbus (London: Faber & Faber, 1944).
  • Springboard, Poems 1941-1944 (London: Faber & Faber, 1944; New York: Random House, 1945).
  • The Dark Tower and Other Radio Scripts (London: Faber & Faber, 1947).
  • Holes in the Sky, Poems 1944-1947 (London: Faber & Faber: 1948; New York: Random House, 1949).
  • Collected Poems 1925-1948 (London: Faber & Faber, 1949; New York: Oxford University Press, 1963).
  • Ten Burnt Offerings (London: Faber & Faber, 1952; New York: Oxford University Press, 1953).
  • The Penny That Rolled Away (New York: Putnam's, 1954); republished as The Sixpence That Rolled Away (London: Faber & Faber, 1956).
  • The Other Wing (London: Faber & Faber, 1954).
  • Autumn Sequel: A Rhetorical Poem (London: Faber & Faber, 1954).
  • Visitations (London: Faber & Faber, 1957; New York: Oxford University Press, 1958).
  • Eighty-Five Poems (London: Faber & Faber, 1959; New York: Oxford University Press, 1961).
  • Solstices (London: Faber & Faber, 1961; New York: Oxford University Press, 1961).
  • The Burning Perch (London: Faber & Faber, 1963; New York: Oxford University Press, 1963).
  • The Mad Islands and The Administrator (London: Faber & Faber, 1964).
  • Astrology (London: Aldus Books, 1964; Garden City: Doubleday, 1964).
  • The Strings Are False, An Unfinished Autobiography, edited by E. R. Dodds (London: Faber & Faber, 1965; New York: Oxford University Press, 1966).
  • Varieties of Parable (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1965).
  • The Collected Poems of Louis MacNeice, edited by Dodds (London: Faber & Faber, 1966; New York: Oxford University Press, 1967).
  • One for the Grave (London: Faber & Faber, 1968; New York: Oxford University Press, 1968).
  • Persons from Porlock and Other Plays for Radio (London: British Broadcasting Company, 1969).
 
 
Plays:
  • The Agamemnon of Aeschylus, translated by MacNeice, London, Westminster Theatre, 4 November 1937.
  • Out of the Picture, London, Westminster Theatre, 2 December 1937.
  • Station Bell, Birmingham, Birmingham University, 1937.
  • Traitors in Our Way, Belfast, Lyric Theatre, March 1957.
  • One for the Grave, Dublin, Abbey Theatre, October 1966.
 
 
Radio Plays:
  • Christopher Columbus, BBC, 12 October 1942.
  • The Nosebag, BBC, 13 March 1944.
  • He Had a Date, BBC, 28 June 1944.
  • Sunbeams in His Hat, BBC, 16 July 1944.
  • The March Hare Resigns, BBC, 29 March 1945.
  • The Dark Tower, BBC, 21 January 1946.
  • Salute to All Fools, BBC, 1 April 1946.
  • Enter Caesar, BBC, 20 September 1946.
  • The Queen of Air and Darkness, BBC, 28 March 1949.
  • Faust, translated by MacNeice and E.L. Stahl, BBC, 30 October-21 November 1949.
  • Prisoner's Progress, BBC, 27 April 1954.
  • The Waves, adapted from Virginia Woolf's novel, BBC, 18 and 19 March 1955.
  • East of the Sun and West of the Moon, BBC, 25 July 1959.
  • They Met on Good Friday, BBC, 8 December 1959.
  • The Administrator, BBC, 10 March 1961.
  • The Mad Islands, BBC, 4 April 1962.
  • Persons from Porlock, BBC, 30 August 1963.
 
 
Other:
  • Oxford Poetry, 1929, edited by MacNeice and Stephen Spender (London: Oxford University Press, 1929).
  • The Agamemnon of Aeschylus, translated by MacNeice (London: Faber & Faber, 1936; New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1937).
  • "Experiences with Images," Orpheus, 2 (1949): 124-132.
  • Goethe's Faust, Parts I and II, translated by MacNeice (London: Faber & Faber, 1951; New York: Oxford University Press, 1952).