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Thread #112941 Message #2617069
Posted By: sharyn
23-Apr-09 - 12:52 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Bagpipe Music (Louis MacNeice)
Subject: RE: Origins: Bagpipe Music (Louis MacNeice)
Louis MacNeice was a contemporary of W.H. Auden, a modern poet actively interested in the Spanish Civil War. "Bagpipe Music" is one of his most-anthologized poems. It is quite wonderful if you can find a recording of him reading it.