Written between August and December 1938, Autumn Journal is still considered one of the most valuable and moving testaments of living through the thirties by a young writer.
It is a record of the author’s emotional and intellectual experience during those months, the trivia of everyday living set against the events of the world outside, the settlement in Munich and slow defeat in Spain.
Dancing the War
Towards the end of Modern Poetry, his idiosyncratic book of literary criticism, the Anglo-Irish poet Louis MacNeice tells a story of the great Russian ballet dancer Vaslav Nijinsky. MacNeice is...
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