Louis MacNeice, a memorial Address, delivered at All Souls, Langham Place on 17 October, 1963.

AUDEN, Wystan Hugh.

Published by Privately printed for Faber & Faber, [1963]., 1963

About this Item

8vo, pp. 14; a fine copy; pamphlet-stitched in pink printed wrappers over paper covers; laid in loose is the printed order of service from MacNeice's funeral, and two newspaper cuttings.First edition, one of 250 copies, of Auden's memorial address for Louis MacNeice, with the printed order of service and newspaper cuttings of poems on MacNeice, including 'The Cave of Making' by Auden (The Listener, 1 October 1964). Provenance: From the library of the Manchester-born poet, journalist, and BBC radio producer D.G. Bridson (1910 1980). Bridson attended MacNeice's funeral, and had included MacNeice alongside Auden and others in 'The Modern Muse', his sixty-minute broadcast of contemporary poetry in 1938. Of MacNeice, Bridson wrote: 'Louis was a unique poet: he was also a unique person. No doubt he would have been much embarrassed by the number of friends who mourned him, after his last broadcast had killed him off in such a tragically unnecessary way' (Prospero and Ariel) that is, from pneumonia caught while recording subterranean cave sounds for the radio play Persons from Porlock, in which the main character suffers an unnervingly similar fate. Bloomfield and Mendelson A46. Language: English. Seller Inventory # GR192

Bibliographic Details

Title: Louis MacNeice, a memorial Address, ...

Publisher: Privately printed for Faber & Faber, [1963].

Publication Date: 1963

Binding: Soft cover

Edition: 1st Edition