“I think that the poet is only an extension — or, if you prefer it, a concentration — of the ordinary man.”
About Louis MacNeice
12 September 1907–3 September 1963
Louis MacNeice was born on 12 September 1907 in Belfast, the youngest child of John Frederick MacNeice and Elizabeth Margaret Clesham. His father was a Church of Ireland clergyman who would later become a bishop, and the family moved shortly after Louis's birth to Carrickfergus, on the northern shore of Belfast Lough…