Poem

The Closing Album

Title	The Closing Album
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

Publication Instance Details #3006

Collection/Anthology Details

Collection/Anthology	Louis MacNeice: Collected Poems
Date of Publication	2007
Publisher	Faber and Faber (UK)
Page Number(s)	178-182

Publication Overview

Translation	Is Multilingual	Explicit Irish Context?	Ekphrasis	Has Paratext?	Reference to News, Media or Technology
No	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes

Details

Human Rights Issues	War
War / Genocide Referenced	War: Second World War
Irish Context	Colonization and Colonial Legacy (Ireland) Other Specific Irish place or place-name mentioned WW II (Ireland) Civil War (Ireland)
Languages	English
Genre	Lyric Sequence
Medium	Print Collection
Paratext Text	August-September, 1939
Notes	Section II, 'Cushendun', and section IV, 'Galway' of this lyric sequence make reference to the contemporary climate and to the outbreak of WW2. Section I, 'Dublin', makes a reference to the Battle of Dublin that marked the beginning of the Irish Civil War.

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