Poem

The Coming of War

Title	The Coming of War
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 #3041

Collection/Anthology Details

Collection/Anthology	Louis MacNeice: Collected Poems
Date of Publication	2007
Publisher	Faber and Faber (UK)
Page Number(s)	680-686

Publication Overview

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

Details

Human Rights Issues	War
War / Genocide Referenced	War: Second World War
Irish Context	Civil War (Ireland) Colonization and Colonial Legacy (Ireland) Political Independence (Ireland) Specific Irish place or place-name mentioned WW II (Ireland)
Languages	English
Genre	Lyric Sequence
Medium	Print Collection
Paratext Text	(Dublin, Cushendun, the West of Ireland, and back.) August-September, 1939
Notes	This lyric sequence was included in The Last Ditch and published by the Cuala Press in 1940. It appears in the appendix to this collected poems. It contains the majority of ‘The Closing Album’, published in Plant and Phantom (1941), however, a number of additional sections appear here which depict the narrator’s response to WW2.

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