Brown, Richard Danson
(2005).
Neutrality and Commitment: MacNeice, Yeats, Ireland and the Second World War.
Journal of Modern Literature, 28(3),
pp. 109–129.
Abstract
This essay explores MacNeice’s reading of Yeats, arguing that the relationship between the two poets is crucial to understanding both MacNeice’s work during the Second World War and his own ambivalent relationship with Ireland and Irishness. Though concentrating on the criticism and poetry of the early to mid-1940s, I suggest that Yeats remained central to MacNeice’s critical thinking. Detailed readings of ‘The Coming of War’ and ‘The Casualty’ bring out both the Yeatsian textures of these poems and expose the way in which MacNeice’s poetry conducts a critical dialogue with Yeats which remains at once admiring and dissenting.
| Item Type: |
Journal Article
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| ISSN: |
0022-281X |
| Keywords: |
MacNeice; Yeats; poetry; Ireland; Second World War |
| Academic Unit/Department: |
Arts > English |
| Item ID: |
2504 |
| Depositing User: |
Richard Brown
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| Date Deposited: |
13 Jun 2006 |
| Last Modified: |
02 Dec 2010 19:47 |
| URI: |
http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/2504 |
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