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Aubade – Louis MacNeice

Having bitten on life like a sharp apple 
Or, playing it like a fish, been happy, 

Having felt with fingers that the sky is blue, 
What have we after that to look forward to?

Not the twilight of the gods but a precise dawn 
of sallow and grey bricks, and newsboys crying war.

by Louis MacNeice (1907-1963)

#Aubade #LouisMacNeice #Poem #Poetry

Aubade – Louis MacNeice

Having bitten on life like a sharp apple 
Or, playing it like a fish, been happy, 

Having felt with fingers that the sky is blue, 
What have we after that to look forward to?

Not the twilight of the gods but a precise dawn 
of sallow and grey bricks, and newsboys crying war.

by Louis MacNeice (1907-1963)

#Aubade #LouisMacNeice #Poem #Poetry

"Good-bye now, Plato and Hegel,
The shop is closing down; They don’t want any philosopher-kings in England, There ain’t no universals in this man’s town."

Louis MacNeice, Autumn Journal (1939)

https://ia801509.us.archive.org/7/items/in.ernet.dli.2015.184237/2015.184237.Autumn-Journal_text.pdf (pdf)

#InternetArchive #LouisMacNeice #Classics #Poetry

"Good-bye now, Plato and Hegel,
The shop is closing down; They don’t want any philosopher-kings in England, There ain’t no universals in this man’s town."

Louis MacNeice, Autumn Journal (1939)

https://ia801509.us.archive.org/7/items/in.ernet.dli.2015.184237/2015.184237.Autumn-Journal_text.pdf (pdf)

#InternetArchive #LouisMacNeice #Classics #Poetry

"Good-bye now, Plato and Hegel,
The shop is closing down; They don’t want any philosopher-kings in England, There ain’t no universals in this man’s town."

Louis MacNeice, Autumn Journal (1939)

https://ia801509.us.archive.org/7/items/in.ernet.dli.2015.184237/2015.184237.Autumn-Journal_text.pdf (pdf)

#InternetArchive #LouisMacNeice #Classics #Poetry

"Good-bye now, Plato and Hegel,
The shop is closing down; They don’t want any philosopher-kings in England, There ain’t no universals in this man’s town."

Louis MacNeice, Autumn Journal (1939)

https://ia801509.us.archive.org/7/items/in.ernet.dli.2015.184237/2015.184237.Autumn-Journal_text.pdf (pdf)

#InternetArchive #LouisMacNeice #Classics #Poetry

"Good-bye now, Plato and Hegel,
The shop is closing down; They don’t want any philosopher-kings in England, There ain’t no universals in this man’s town."

Louis MacNeice, Autumn Journal (1939)

https://ia801509.us.archive.org/7/items/in.ernet.dli.2015.184237/2015.184237.Autumn-Journal_text.pdf (pdf)

#InternetArchive #LouisMacNeice #Classics #Poetry

One for you this evening

(as mentioned in The Book of Beginnings by Sally Page (and published, here, in the Guardian))

https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2016/nov/21/poem-of-the-week-meeting-point-by-louis-macneice

#MeetingPoint #LouisMacNeice #poem #poetry

One for you this evening

(as mentioned in The Book of Beginnings by Sally Page (and published, here, in the Guardian))

https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2016/nov/21/poem-of-the-week-meeting-point-by-louis-macneice

#MeetingPoint #LouisMacNeice #poem #poetry

One for you this evening

(as mentioned in The Book of Beginnings by Sally Page (and published, here, in the Guardian))

https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2016/nov/21/poem-of-the-week-meeting-point-by-louis-macneice

#MeetingPoint #LouisMacNeice #poem #poetry

One for you this evening

(as mentioned in The Book of Beginnings by Sally Page (and published, here, in the Guardian))

https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2016/nov/21/poem-of-the-week-meeting-point-by-louis-macneice

#MeetingPoint #LouisMacNeice #poem #poetry

One for you this evening

(as mentioned in The Book of Beginnings by Sally Page (and published, here, in the Guardian))

https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2016/nov/21/poem-of-the-week-meeting-point-by-louis-macneice

#MeetingPoint #LouisMacNeice #poem #poetry

I did an episode of #StoriesOfIceland about the weird travel book Letters from Iceland written by #WHAuden and #LouisMacNeice.

I don't remember if I related an anecdote I once heard about how many Icelanders were impressed by how gentlemanly Auden and MacNeice were because they never tried to seduce any #Icelandic women during their trip.

I did an episode of #StoriesOfIceland about the weird travel book Letters from Iceland written by #WHAuden and #LouisMacNeice.

I don't remember if I related an anecdote I once heard about how many Icelanders were impressed by how gentlemanly Auden and MacNeice were because they never tried to seduce any #Icelandic women during their trip.

I did an episode of #StoriesOfIceland about the weird travel book Letters from Iceland written by #WHAuden and #LouisMacNeice.

I don't remember if I related an anecdote I once heard about how many Icelanders were impressed by how gentlemanly Auden and MacNeice were because they never tried to seduce any #Icelandic women during their trip.

I did an episode of #StoriesOfIceland about the weird travel book Letters from Iceland written by #WHAuden and #LouisMacNeice.

I don't remember if I related an anecdote I once heard about how many Icelanders were impressed by how gentlemanly Auden and MacNeice were because they never tried to seduce any #Icelandic women during their trip.

I did an episode of #StoriesOfIceland about the weird travel book Letters from Iceland written by #WHAuden and #LouisMacNeice.

I don't remember if I related an anecdote I once heard about how many Icelanders were impressed by how gentlemanly Auden and MacNeice were because they never tried to seduce any #Icelandic women during their trip.

fingers killing time

Louis MacNeice, ‘The heated minutes’ #poetry #louismacneice

fingers killing time

Louis MacNeice, ‘The heated minutes’ #poetry #louismacneice

fingers killing time

Louis MacNeice, ‘The heated minutes’ #poetry #louismacneice

fingers killing time

Louis MacNeice, ‘The heated minutes’ #poetry #louismacneice

fingers killing time

Louis MacNeice, ‘The heated minutes’ #poetry #louismacneice

@Debby @bookstodon Any / all of these by #WendyCope, just so absolutely terrific: (1986) Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis
(1992) Serious Concerns
(2001) If I Don't Know
(2011) Family Values
(2018) Anecdotal Evidence. The last two, in particular. Also, #GjertrudSchnackenberg, Supernatural Love: Poems 1976-2000. So many others, but these two sprang to mind at once, though, of course, I would always recommend #LouisMacNeice, selected or collected poems, but these pre-date your requested time period.

@Debby @bookstodon Any / all of these by #WendyCope, just so absolutely terrific: (1986) Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis
(1992) Serious Concerns
(2001) If I Don't Know
(2011) Family Values
(2018) Anecdotal Evidence. The last two, in particular. Also, #GjertrudSchnackenberg, Supernatural Love: Poems 1976-2000. So many others, but these two sprang to mind at once, though, of course, I would always recommend #LouisMacNeice, selected or collected poems, but these pre-date your requested time period.

@Debby @bookstodon Any / all of these by #WendyCope, just so absolutely terrific: (1986) Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis
(1992) Serious Concerns
(2001) If I Don't Know
(2011) Family Values
(2018) Anecdotal Evidence. The last two, in particular. Also, #GjertrudSchnackenberg, Supernatural Love: Poems 1976-2000. So many others, but these two sprang to mind at once, though, of course, I would always recommend #LouisMacNeice, selected or collected poems, but these pre-date your requested time period.

@Debby @bookstodon Any / all of these by #WendyCope, just so absolutely terrific: (1986) Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis
(1992) Serious Concerns
(2001) If I Don't Know
(2011) Family Values
(2018) Anecdotal Evidence. The last two, in particular. Also, #GjertrudSchnackenberg, Supernatural Love: Poems 1976-2000. So many others, but these two sprang to mind at once, though, of course, I would always recommend #LouisMacNeice, selected or collected poems, but these pre-date your requested time period.

@Debby @bookstodon Any / all of these by #WendyCope, just so absolutely terrific: (1986) Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis
(1992) Serious Concerns
(2001) If I Don't Know
(2011) Family Values
(2018) Anecdotal Evidence. The last two, in particular. Also, #GjertrudSchnackenberg, Supernatural Love: Poems 1976-2000. So many others, but these two sprang to mind at once, though, of course, I would always recommend #LouisMacNeice, selected or collected poems, but these pre-date your requested time period.