Author Description

Mr. MacNeice has set himself to discuss contemporary poetry in the light of his own experience as student and poet. The first half of the book is devoted to his "case-book" his formal introduction to poetry in preparatory school, the development of his taste in public school and Oxford... The rest of the book treats technical problems matters as fundamental as metric and rythme, imagery, diction, the quality of obscurity. He concludes with a brief statement of his faith as an artist.THIS TITLE IS CITED AND RECOMMENDED BY: Books for College Libraries.