Louis MacNeice: Poems Louis MacNeice

Poetry collections

• Blind Fireworks (1929, mainly considered by MacNeice to be juvenilia and excluded from the 1949 Collected Poems)
• Poems (1935)
• Letters from Iceland (1937, with W. H. Auden, poetry and prose)
• The Earth Compels (1938)
• Autumn Journal (1939)
• The Last Ditch (1940)
• Selected Poems (1940)
• Plant and Phantom (1941)
• Springboard (1944)
• Prayer Before Birth (1944)
• Holes in the Sky (1948)
• Collected Poems, 1925–1948 (1949)
• Ten Burnt Offerings (1952)
• Autumn Sequel (1954)
• Visitations (1957)
• Solstices (1961)
• The Burning Perch (1963)
• Star-gazer (1963)
• Selected Poems (1964, edited by W. H. Auden)
• Collected Poems (1966, edited by E. R. Dodds)
• Selected Poems (1988, edited by Michael Longley, redesigned and republished by Wake Forest University Press, 2009)
• Collected Poems (2007, edited by Peter McDonald)

Plays

• The Agamemnon of Aeschylus (1936, translation)
• Out of the Picture (1937)
• Christopher Columbus (1944, radio) & performed, Brighton Dome (2002)
• He Had a Date (1944, radio, not published separately)
• The Dark Tower and other radio scripts (1947)
• Goethe's Faust (1949, published 1951, a translation)
• The Mad Islands [1962] and The Administrator [1961] (1964, radio)
• Persons from Porlock [1963] and other plays for radio (1969)
• One for the Grave: a modern morality play [1958] (1968)
• Selected Plays of Louis MacNeice, ed. Alan Heuser and Peter McDonald (1993)

MacNeice also wrote several plays which were never produced, and many for the BBC which were never published.

Books (fiction)

• Roundabout Way (1932, as "Louis Malone")
• The Sixpence That Rolled Away (1956, for children)

Books (non-fiction)

• I Crossed the Minch (1938, travel, prose and verse)
• Modern Poetry: A Personal Essay (1938, criticism)
• Zoo (1938)
• The Poetry of W. B. Yeats (1941)
• The Strings Are False (1941, published 1965, autobiography)
• Meet the US Army (1943)
• Astrology (1964)
• Varieties of Parable (1965, criticism)
• Selected Prose of Louis MacNeice, ed. Alan Heuser (1990)