The Burning Perch

Louis MacNeice
The Burning Perch
Bibliographie établie par Joanny Moulin, Université d’Aix-Marseille, avec
Adolphe Haberer (Université de Lyon 2)
* Une étoile signale un article ou un ouvrage particulièrement utile dans le cadre de la
préparation au concours.
** Deux étoiles indiquent les textes à consulter en priorité.
ÉDITION NUMÉRIQUE
*MACNEICE, Louis. The Burning Perch. Oxford University Press, 1963. “Full Text of
The Burning Perch”. Internet Archive. Universal Digital Library. 26 December 2003.
https://archive.org/details/burningperch001857mbp
BIBLIOGRAPHIE
ARMITAGE, Christopher M. & Neil Clark, eds. Bibliography of the Works of Louis MacNeice.
Worthing: Littlehampton Book Services, 1973.
AUTO/BIOGRAPHIE
*STALLWORTHY, Jon. Louis MacNeice. New York: Norton, 1995. 572 p.
*MACNEICE, Louis. The Strings Are False; An Unfinished Autobiography. 1965. London:
Faber & Faber, 1996. 288 p.
SOURCES PRIMAIRES
Par ordre chronologique de publication.
Poésie
Blind Fireworks. London: Gollancz, 1929.
Letters from Iceland (with W. H. Auden). 1937.
The Earth Compells. London: Faber & Faber, 1938.
Autumn Journal. 1939. London: Faber & Faber, 2015.
The Last Ditch. Dublin: Cuala Press, 1940.
Plant and Phantom. London: Faber & Faber, 1941.
Springboard. London: Faber & Faber, 1944.
Holes in the Sky. Poems 1994-1947. London: Faber & Faber, 1948.
Ten Burnt Offerings. London: Faber & Faber, 1952.
Autumn Sequel: A Rhetorical Poem in XXVI Cantos. London: Faber & Faber, 1954.
Visitations. London: Faber & Faber, 1957.
Solstices. London: Faber & Faber, 1961.
**The Burning Perch. 1963. London: Faber & Faber, 2001.
The Revenant: A Song Cycle for Hedli Anderson. Dublin: Cuala Press, 1975.
**Collected Poems. Ed. Peter McDonald. 2007. London: Faber & Faber, 2015.
Collected Poems. Ed. E. R. Dodds. London: Faber & Faber, 1966.
Louis MacNeice: Poems Selected by Michael Longley. London: Faber & Faber, 2005.
Selected Poems. Ed. W. H. Auden. London: Faber & Faber, 1964.
Selected Poems. Eds. Michael & Edna Longley. London: Faber & Faber, 2015.
Fiction
Roundabout Way (pseud. Louis Malone). 1932. Capuchin Classics, 2012.
The Sixpence That Rolled Away (for children). London: Faber & Faber, 1956.
Drama
The Agamemnon of Aeschylus. 1936. London: Faber & Faber, 2008.
Out of the Picture; A Play in Two Acts. London: Faber & Faber, 1937.
Christopher Columbus; A Radio Play. London: Faber & Faber, 1944.
The Dark Tower and other radio scripts. 1947. London: Faber & Faber, 2011.
Goethe's Faust: Parts 1 & 2. 1949, pub. 1951. London: Faber & Faber, 2011.
One for the Grave: A Modern Morality Play. 1958. London: Faber & Faber, 1968.
The Mad Islands and The Administrator. (Pièces radio.) 1961. 1962. London: Faber & Faber,
1964.
Persons from Porlock and other plays for radio. 1963. London: BBC Books, 1969.
Selected Plays of Louis MacNeice. Ed. Alan Heuser and Peter McDonald. London: Clarendon
Press, 1993.
Louis MacNeice: The Classical Radio Plays. Oxford University Press, 2013.
Essays
I Crossed the Minch. (Récit de voyage). 1938. Edinburgh: Polygon (Birlinn), 2007.
**Modern Poetry: A Personal Essay. 1938. London: Oxford University Press, 1969.
Zoo. 1938. London: Faber & Faber, 2013.
The Poetry of W. B. Yeats. 1941. London: Faber & Faber, 2008.
Meet the US Army. London: His Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1943.
Astrology. New York: Doubleday, 1964.
**Varieties of Parable. 1965. London: Faber & Faber, 2008.
*Selected Literary Criticism. Ed. Alan Heuser. London: Faber & Faber, 1987.
*Selected Prose of Louis MacNeice. Ed. Alan Heuser. London: Clarendon Press, 1990.
*Selected Letters of Louis MacNeice. Ed. Jonathan Allison. London: Faber & Faber, 2014.
SOURCES SECONDAIRES
Monographies
*BREARTON, Fran & Edna LONGLEY. Incorrigibly Plural: Louis MacNeice and His Legacy.
Manchester: Carcanet, 2012.
BROWN, Terence. Louis MacNeice: Sceptical Vision. Dublin: Gill & Macmillan, 1975.
COULTON, Barbara. Louis MacNeice in the BBC. London: Faber & Faber, 1980.
**HABERER, Adolphe. Louis MacNeice (1907-1963): l'homme et la poésie. Bordeaux: Presses
Univ. de Bordeaux, 1986.
KOOLBAUM, Aileen. Louis MacNeice — Snow: An Analysis. Munich: Grin Verlag, 2013.
LONGLEY, Edna. Louis MacNeice: A Study. London: Faber & Faber, 1988.
MARSACK, Robyn. The Cave of Making: The Poetry of Louis MacNeice. London: Oxford
University Press, 1982, 1985.
**MCDONALD, Peter. Louis MacNeice, The Poet in His Contexts. Oxford: Clarendon Press,
1991.
**MCDONALD, Peter. Louis MacNeice: The Burning Perch. A Companion to TwentiethCentury Poetry. Ed. Neil Roberts. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991: 491-499.
MCKINNON, William T. Apollo’s Blended Dream: A Study of the Poetry of Louis MacNeice.
London: Oxford University Press, 1971.
*MOORE, Donald B. The Poetry of Louis MacNeice. Leicester University Press, 1972.
*PRESS, John. Louis MacNeice. London: Longman, 1965.
Ouvrages collectifs
BROWN, Terence & Alec REID, eds. Time Was Away: The World of Louis MacNeice. Dublin:
Dolmen Press, 1974.
DEVINE, Kathleen & Alan J. PEACOCK. Louis MacNeice and His Influence. Belfast: Ulster
Editions & Monographs, 1997.
*GENET, Jacqueline, ed. Studies on Louis MacNeice. Caen: Presses Universitaires de Caen,
1988.
Articles de revues & chapitres d’ouvrages
ALLISON, Jonathan. « Memory and Starlight in Late MacNeice ». The Oxford Handbook of
Modern Irish Poetry. Eds. F. Brearton & A. Gillis. Oxford University Press, 2013:
240-248.
ANG, Susan. « 'Dear Shade': Louis MacNeice Selected and Recollected ». Selected Poems:
From Modernism to Now. Eds.J. Kilgore-Caradec. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars,
2012: 5-21.
ARMITAGE, C. M. « MacNeice’s Prose and Fiction ». The Honest Ulsterman 73 (1983): 8695.
ARMSTRONG, Charles I. « Out of the Museum: MacNeice and the Confines of Aesthetic
Space ». Nordic Irish Studies 8 (2009): 29-41.
BROWN, Richard Danson. « MacNeice in Fairy Land ». Edmund Spenser: New and Renewed
Directions. Ed. J. B. Lethbridge. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press,
2006: 352-69.
BROWN, Terence. « MacNeice and the Puritan Tradition ». Louis MacNeice and His Influence.
Eds. K. Devine & A. J. Peacock. Gerrards Cross: Smythe, 1998: 20-33.
BRUS, Teresa. « A Collection of Selves: Louis MacNeice's Autumn Journal ». Connotations:
A Journal for Critical Debate. 22.2 (2012-13): 187-213.
BRUS, Teresa. « Louis MacNeice and W. B. Yeats Autobiographically ». The Playful Air of
Light(ness) in Irish Literature and Culture. Eds. M. Goszczynska & K . Polczek.
Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2011. 151-150.
CALDWELL, Roger. « Louis MacNeice, Realist and Anti-Realist ». PN Review 34.2 (2007):
45-47.
CLARK, Heather. « Revising MacNeice ». Cambridge Quarterly 31.1: 77-92.
*CORCORAN, Neil. « The Same Again? Repetition and Refrain in Louis MacNeice ».
Cambridge Quarterly 38.3 (2009): 214-224.
*CORCORAN, Neil. « Keeping the Colours New: Louis MacNeice in the Contemporary Poetry
of Northern Ireland ». Louis MacNeice and His Influence. Eds. K. Devine & A. J.
Peacock. Gerrards Cross: Smythe, 1998: 114-32.
FITZPATRICK, David. « The Gardener and The Stable-Boy: Yeats, MacNeice, and the Problem
of Orangeism ». The Review of English Studies, 64.263 (2013): 127-144.
*GITZEN, Julian. « Louis MacNeice: The Last Decade ». Twentieth Century Literature 14.3
(1968): 133-141.
**HABERER, Adolphe. « Théorie et pratique de la poésie impure dans l'œuvre de Louis
MacNeice: les enjeux d'une querelle ». Studies on Louis MacNeice. Caen : Centre de
Publ. de l'Univ. de Caen, 1988, 79-106. Adolphe Haberer, La Lyre du larynx. Poétique
et poésie moderne. Paris : Didier Erudition, 1996 : 49-74.
**HABERER, Adolphe. « Louis MacNeice, la vie, la poésie ». Louis MacNeice : Études
rassemblées par A. Haberer. Les Années Trente [Univ. de Nantes], numéro spécial, 9,
mars 1989. Repris dans Adolphe Haberer, La Lyre du larynx. Poétique et poésie
moderne. Paris : Didier Erudition, 1996, 75-90.
*HABERER, Adolphe. « Yeats et MacNeice ». Studies on Yeats. Caen : Publ. de l'Univ. de
Caen, 1989 : 9-35.
**HABERER, Adolphe. « Du littoral au littéral. À propos d’un poème de MacNeice ». De la
littérature à la lettre. Poésie, fiction, arts. Eds. Adolphe Haberer & Josiane PaccaudHuguet. Lyon : Presses Univ. de Lyon, 1997 : 19-31.
**HABERER, Adolphe. « Autumn Journal de Louis MacNeice : la poésie au jour le jour ». Les
Années Trente [Univ. de Nantes] 3 (février 1985) : 63-82.
**HABERER, Adolphe. « Louis MacNeice, poète des années trente, cinquante ans après ».
Études Anglaises 41.1 (jan-mars 1988) : 74-85.
**HABERER, Adolphe. « Otherness Refused : a Reading of “Prayer Before Birth” by Louis
MacNeice”. Études Irlandaises 15.1 (juin 1990) : 71-83.
*HABERER, Adolphe. « Yeats and MacNeice: From Context to Intertext ». Irish University
Review [Dublin, UCD] 27.2 (Autumn 1997) : 219-235.
HARTE, Liam. « Living beyond the Severed Ends: Poetry of Louis MacNeice and Philip
Larkin ». Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review 89 (2000): 45-53.
HOUGH, Graham. « MacNeice and Auden ». Critiqual Quarterly 9.1 (1967): 9-18.
HYNES, Samuel. « Auden and MacNeice ». Contemporary Literature 14.3 (1973): 378-83.
IRWIN, John T. « MacNeice, Auden, and the Art Ballad ». Contemporary Literature 11.1
(1970): 58-79.
JOHNSTON, Maria. « 'This Endless Land': Louis MacNeice and the USA ». Irish University
Review: A Journal of Irish Studies 38.2: 243-262.
KENNELLY, Brendan. « Louis MacNeice: An Irish Outsider ». Journey into Joy: Selected
Prose Ed. Ake Persson. Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe Books, 1992): 136-44.
*KIRKHAM, Michael. « Louis MacNeice’s Poetry of Ambivalence ». University o Toronto
Quarterly 56.4 (1987): 540-556.
LONGLEY, Edna. « Louis MacNeice: "The Walls are Flowing" ». Eds. G Dave & Edna
Longley. Across a Roaring Hill: The Protestant Imagination in Modern Ireland.
Belfast: Blackstaff Press, 1985. 99-123.
LONGLEY, Edna. « Louis MacNeice: Autumns Journal ». Poetry in the Wars. Newcastle:
Bloodaxe, 1986: 78-93.
LONGLEY, Edna. « Protestant Bookmen: Politics and Northern Protestant Writers since the
1930s ». Irish Review 1 (1986): 50-57.
LONGLEY, Edna. « Varieties of Parable: Louis MacNeice & Paul Muldoon ». Poetry in the
Wars. Newcastle: Bloodaxe, 1986: 235-7.
LONGLEY, Edna. « MacNeice and After ». Poetry Review 78.2 (1988): 6-10.
LONGLEY, Michael. « A Misrepresented Poet ». Dublin Magazine 6.1 (1967): 68-74.
LONGLEY, Michael. « The Neolithic Night: A Note on the Irishness of Louis MacNeice ».
Two Decades of Irish Writing. Ed. Douglas Dunn. Manchester: Carcanet, 1975: 81-88.
MCDONALD, Peter. « Ireland’s MacNeice: A Caveat ». Irish Review 2 (1987):64-69.
MCDONALD, Peter. « With Eyes Turned Down on the Past: MacNeice's Classicism ». Louis
MacNeice and His Influence. Eds. K. Devine & A. J. Peacock. Gerrards Cross:
Smythe, 1998: 34-52.
*MCDONALD, Peter. « Louis MacNeice: Irony and Responsibility ». The Cambridge
Companion to Contemporary Irish Poetry. Ed M. Campbell. Cambridge University
Press, 2003: 59-75.
*MCDONALD, Peter. « Louis MacNeice's Posterity ». Princeton University Library Chronicle
59.3 (1999): 376-97.
*MOIR, Michael A., Jr. « 'More than Glass': Louis MacNeice's Poetics of Expansion ».
PAULIN, Tom. « The Man from No Part: Louis MacNeice ». Ireland and the English Crisis.
Newcastle: Bloodaxe, 1984: 75-78.
PEACOCK, Alan J. « Louis MacNeice: Transmitting Horace ». Revista Alicantina de Estudios
Ingleses 5 (1992): 119-130.
SCHNEIDER, Florence. « Clichés tremblés dans deux poèmes de Louis MacNeice et Paul
Muldoon ». LISA 12.3 (2014). http://lisa.revues.org/6014
SENKTAS, Renata. " Come Back Early, If Only in the Refrain: Louis MacNeice's
'Autobiography' and the Poetics of Recovery ». The Playful Air of Light(ness) in Irish
Literature and Culture. Eds. M. Goszczynska & K . Polczek. Newcastle: Cambridge
Scholars, 2011: 131-9.
SKELTON, Ross. « Logic in Literature: Bilogic Strands in the Poetry of Louis MacNeice ».
Eds. P. Coleman & J. Hegarty. On Literature and Science: Essays, Reflections,
Provocations. Dublin: Four Courts, 2007: 162-172.
WALKER, Alistair D. « Louis MacNeice and the Importance of Islands ». The Classical World
and the Mediterranean. Ed. D. Badin. Cagliari: Tema, 1996: 312-18.
**WALKER, Tom. « MacNeice's Byzantium: The Ghosts of Yeats and Eliot in The Burning
Perch ». The Review of English Studies 62.257 (2011): 785-804.
WALKER, Tom. « MacNeice among His Irish Contemporaries: 1939 and 1945 ». The Oxford
Handbook of Modern Irish Poetry. Eds. F. Brearton & A. Gillis. Oxford University
Press, 2013: 196-209.
WALKER, Tom. « 'Even a Still Life Is Alive': Visual Art and Bloomsbury Aesthetics in the
Early Poetry of Louis MacNeice ». Cambridge Quarterly 38.3 (2008):196-213.
*WHITE, Mélanie. « “To Marry Myth to Actuality”: Louis MacNeice's Use of Mythos in His
Poetic Journals ». The Power of Form: Recycling Myths. Eds. R. R. Fernandes, J. P.
Serra & R. C. Fonseca. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2015: 161-169.
WHITE, Mélanie. « Aristotle's Concept of Energeia in Autumn Journal by Louis MacNeice,
Poet, Classics Scholar and Intellectual ». Études irlandaises. 34.2 (2009): 55-69.
WILSON, James Matthew. « Louis MacNeice's Struggle with Aristotelian Ethics ». New
Hibernia Review/Iris Éireannach Nua: A Quarterly Record of Irish Studies 10.4
(2006): 53-70.
Contexte (poètes des années trente / poésie anglaise moderne)
BERGONZI, Bernard. Reading the Thirties: Texts and Contexts. London: Macmillan, 1978.
CARTER, Ronald, ed. Thirties Poets: “The Auden Group”. London: Macmillan, 1984.
CUNNIGNHAM, Valentine. British Writers of the Thirties. Oxford University Press, 1988.
GARDNER, Brian. The Terrible Rain: The War Poets 1939-1945. London: Methuen, 1966.
HEWISON, Robert. Under Siege: Literary Life in London 1939-1945. 1977. London: Methuen,
1988.
HYNES, Samuel. The Auden Generation: Literature and Politics in England in the 1930s.
London: Faber & Faber, 1976, 1979.
LONGLEY, Edna, ed. Poetry in the Wars Newcastle: Bloodaxe, 1986.
LUCAS, John. Modern English Poetry: From Hardy to Hughes. London: Bedford, 1986.
MAXWELL, D. E. S. Poets of the Thirties. London: Routledge, 1969.
MULDOON, Paul. The Faber Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry. London: Faber & Faber,
1986.
ORMSBY, Frank, ed. Poets from the North of Ireland. Belfast: Blackstaff, 1979.
*SCARFE, Francis. Auden and After: The Liberation of Poetry 1930-1941. London: Rutledge,
1942.
SCHMIDT, Michael. An Introduction to Fifty Modern Poets. London: Pan Books, 1979.
SKELTON, Robin. Poetry of the Thirties. Harmondsworth: Peinguin, 1968.
SOUTHWORTH, James G. “Louis MacNeice”. Sowing the Spring: Studies in British Poets from
Hopkins to MacNeice. Oxford University Press, 1940: 136-142.
*SPENDER, Stephen. The Thirties and After: Poetry, Politics, People 1933-75. London:
macmillan, 1978.
SYMONS, Anthony. The Thirties: A Dream Revolved. 1965. London: Faber & Faber, 1975.
**THWAITE, Anthony. A Critical Guide to British Poetry 1960-1984. London: Longman,
1985.
TOLLEY, A. T. The Poetry of the Thirties. London: Gollancz, 1975.
Thèses
CARSTAIRS, David. Louis MacNeice's Representations of Anglo-Irish Identity. U. of
Southampton, 2002. Dissertation Abstracts International (DAIC) 65.2 (2004): 307.
Abstract no: C815429
*SHUTTLEWORTH, Antony. The Poetics of Impurity: Louis MacNeice, Writing and the
Thirties. U. of Warwick. Dissertation Abstracts International 53.8 (1993): 2830A31A. Abstract no: BRD-97535.
STOTHERS, Jesse Denoon. The Final Anomaly: Configurations of the Human Subject in the
Poetry of Louis MacNeice. U. of Saskatchewan, 2000. Dissertation Abstracts
International (DAIA) 62.11(2002): 3799. Abstract no: DANQ63966.
Enregistrements audio
** « Louis MacNeice speaks about, and recites, ‘Bagpipe Music’ ». Youtube. 21 Sept. 2011.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n72XebBaMeI
** « Prayer Before Birth ». The Poetry Archive. http://www.poetryarchive.org/poet/louismacneice
The Poet Speaks: Four 20th Century Poets Reading their Own Works. (Louis MacNeice,
Cecil Day Lewis, Stephen Spender and W. H. Auden). London Records. ASIN
B0047599AG.