Louis MacNeice Quotes

"The Streets of Laredo", line 1, from Holes in the Sky (1948)
MacNeice’s poem, a grotesque vision of the London Blitz, is not to be confused with the cowboy ballad "The Streets of Laredo".

"The Streets of Laredo", line 21

Qualities of a poet from Modern Poetry 1938.

MacNeice interview in Twentieth Century Authors, a biographical dictionary of modern literature, edited by Stanley J. Kunitz and Howard Haycraft; (Third Edition). New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1950 (p. 889).

"Bagpipe Music", line 31

"Prayer Before Birth", line 1, from Springboard (1944)

"The British Museum Reading Room", line 4, from Plant and Phantom (1941)

"Traveller's Return", in Horizon, February 1941, Reprinted in David Pierce Irish Writing in the Twentieth Century: A Reader. Cork University Press, 2000.