Poem

Trilogy for X

Title Trilogy for X
Author Louis MacNeice

Instances of Publication

A published appearance of this poem.

Collection/Anthology Year of Publication Medium View Details
Louis MacNeice: Collected Poems 2007 Print Collection View Details
Louis MacNeice: Collected Poems 2007 Print Collection View Details
Publication Instance Details #3044
Collection/Anthology Details
Collection/Anthology Louis MacNeice: Collected Poems
Date of Publication 2007
Publisher Faber and Faber (UK)
Page Number(s) 697-700
Publication Overview
Translation Is Multilingual Explicit Irish Context? Ekphrasis Has Paratext? Reference to News, Media or Technology
No
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Details
Human Rights Issues
War / Genocide Referenced
Languages
Genre Lyric Sequence
Medium Print Collection
Paratext Text (For X) Summer, 1938
Notes This poem was included in *The Last Ditch* under the title 'Three Poems Apart' and published by the Cuala Press in 1940. This poem appears also in *Plant and Phantom* which was published in 1941.The third section of this poem makes reference to European headlines depicting ‘beasts of fable’. Reference is also made to searchlights and to the figure of a soldier/pilot. The context appears to be WW2.
Is bunachar beo é seo. Entries continue to be updated.