Volume 54, Number 13 · August 16, 2007
The Shadow Man
By Brad Leithauser
Collected Poems of Louis MacNeice
edited by Peter MacDonald
London: Faber and Faber, 836 pp., £30.00 (paper)
Louis MacNeice
by Jon Stallworthy
Norton, 572 pp. (out of print)
Louis MacNeice and His Influence
edited by Kathleen Devineand Alan J. Peacock
Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe,184 pp., £27.50
If you're a poet fated to be eclipsed, doubtless you could do worse than to have W.H. Auden be the one who stands between you and the light. For one thing, Auden's surpassing range, both of mode and subject matter, leaves a broad field for maneuvering. For another, his civility and geniality are—to choose an Audenesque term—comfy; the shadow he casts is warm rather than cold.
Review, 3974 words
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