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Louis MacNeice's archive was established at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin in 1964, a year after MacNeice's death. The collection, largely coming from MacNeice's sister Elizabeth Nicholson, includes manuscripts of poetic and dramatic works, a large number of books, correspondence, and books from MacNeice's library.
The Dark Tower is a 1946 BBC Home Service radio play written, in verse, and produced by Louis MacNeice, with music composed for it by Benjamin Britten. [1] [2] [3] Dramatist and author Robin Brooks, writing in The Guardian in 2017, called it "a landmark in radio drama". [3] MacNeice wrote the play in the autumn of 1945.
His range extended from the Louis Macneice radio play, The Dark Tower in the 1940s to the TV thriller, The XYY Man in the late 1970s. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Along with Philip Guard and John Bryning, Dignam can be heard on the fade-out of the Beatles ' song " I Am the Walrus ", during which is played a 1967 BBC radio broadcast of King Lear , with Dignam in ...
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The BBC continued producing various kinds of drama, including docu-drama, throughout World War II; amongst the writers they employed were the novelist James Hanley [33] and poet Louis MacNeice, who in 1941 became an employee of the BBC's. MacNeice's work for the BBC initially involved writing and producing radio programmes intended to build ...
"Prayer Before Birth" is a poem written by the Irish poet Louis MacNeice (1907–1963) at the height of the Second World War. Written from the perspective of an unborn child, the poem expresses the author's fear at what the world's tyranny can do to the innocence of a child and blames the human race for the destruction that was gripping the world at the time.
the BBC radio premiere of MacNeice's The Dark Tower in 1947, was preceded by the poet's ten-minute introduction in his distinctive Northern Irish accent. is not supported by a citation. I have changed the date of the premier to 21 January 1946 per [1] & [2] , but there is no mention there of such an introduction.
Zoo is a book by Louis MacNeice.It was published by Michael Joseph in November 1938, and according to the publisher's list belongs in the category of belles lettres.It was one of four books by Louis MacNeice to appear in 1938, along with The Earth Compels, I Crossed the Minch and Modern Poetry: A Personal Essay.