Louis MacNeice
Irish poet and playwright
Died when: 55 years 356 days (671 months)Star Sign: Virgo
Frederick Louis MacNeice CBE (12 September 1907 – 3 September 1963) was an Irish poet and playwright, and a member of the Auden Group, which also included W.
H.Auden, Stephen Spender and Cecil Day-Lewis.MacNeice's body of work was widely appreciated by the public during his lifetime, due in part to his relaxed but socially and emotionally aware style.
Never as overtly or simplistically political as some of his contemporaries, he expressed a humane opposition to totalitarianism as well as an acute awareness of his roots.
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