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Louis macneice autobiography poem for students

          In my childhood trees were green.

        1. In my childhood trees were green.
        2. This is a haunting poem about the tragic death of the poet's mother, a loss he never fully came to terms with, and one that cast a long shadow over him for the.
        3. In this week's poem, Louis MacNeice explores the darker side of youthful memory.
        4. This week's poem by the Irish poet Louis MacNeice () is a kind of balancing act, self-revealing yet reticent, the trauma it turns on evident yet not.
        5. Louis MacNeice was a poet, greatly influenced by WH Auden, who was much loved by his contemporaries and known for his relaxed and honest style.

          6. In this week's poem, Louis MacNeice explores the darker side of youthful memory....

          Gerard Manley Hopkins and Louis MacNeice


          William Adamson,
          University,
          Ulm, Germany.
          This Lecture was delivered at Hopkins Literary Festival July 2003

          The word "transcendence" has a number of meanings depending on context (religious, philosophical, mathematical, etc.).

          Willliam Adamson examines poetry of Louis MacNeice and Gerard Manley Hopkins.

          My talk today is the offspring of a paper I had started to prepare last year for the Gerard Manley Hopkins Festival the theme of which, as those of you who were here will remember, was "otherness" in Hopkins' poetry.

          For one reason or another I didn't manage to finish the paper in time and promised to put things right this year. Now the only problem there was that I already had two thirds of the paper on Hopkins, MacNeice and "otherness" planned and the prospect of sitting down and starting again on a theme for this year which might well be totally unrelated to either MacNeice, MacNeice and Hopki