{"product_id":"kalck-xavier-muted-strings-louis-macneice-s-the-burning-perch-9782130650737","title":"Muted strings : Louis MacNeice's The burning perch","description":"\u003cp\u003eLouis MacNeice (1907-1963) was a contradictory figure. He was an\n Irishman educated in England, where he spent most of his adult life; a\n rector's son who became a skeptic; a poet, a travel writer, a dramatist\n for the BBC, a critic and a memorialist. He lectured in Classics and had\n a penchant for modernism; he was friends with W. H. Auden, Stephen\n Spender and Cecil Day-Lewis, yet remained unorthodox within the\n 'Auden group'; a 'Thirties poet,' he leaned left but never joined the\n Communist Party; he fed on W. B. Yeats and T. S. Eliot, the better to\n come into his own. \u003ci\u003eThe Burning Perch\u003c\/i\u003e, MacNeice's last and posthumous\n collection, combines the poet's various influences and concerns into a\n remarkably consistent, however paradoxical, personal project: a quest\n for poetic renewal and a perennial past. Embers or ashes, nightmare\n visions or ironic pictures, dramatic parables or simple limericks, these\n and many other varieties of dissonance come together in a ceaseless\n weave of archaized novelty and modernized memories. Through\n minute analysis of precise poems, this study shows how MacNeice's\n music of disharmony succeeds in finding its own voice, which not to\n be false, must achieve a muted singing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PUF","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53845335769430,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/kalck-xavier-muted-strings-louis-macneice-s-the-burning-perch-9782130650737","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}