A Poet’s Guide to Britain | 06: Louis MacNeice

Duration: 28'59''

Synopsis

Owen Sheers explores poetry set in the British landscape. He looks at Louis MacNeice's poem Woods, in which the middle-aged MacNeice takes stock of who he has become.

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Other Archive resources
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