Entrance to 4 Keats Grove, Hampstead, London. It was while living here that Louis MacNeice wrote The Sunlight on the Garden
Original title
Song
Written
1936
First published in
The Listener magazine, January 1937
Language
English
The Sunlight on the Garden is a 24-line poem by Louis MacNeice. It was written in late 1936 and was entitled Song at its first appearance in print, in The Listener magazine, January 1937.[1] It was first published in book form as the third poem in MacNeice's poetry collection The Earth Compels (1938). The poem explores themes of time and loss, along with anxiety about the darkening political situation in Europe following the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. It is one of the best known and most anthologized of MacNeice's short poems. George MacBeth describes it as "one of MacNeice's saddest and most beautiful lyrics".[2]
^Jon Stallworthy: Louis MacNeice. London: Faber and Faber, 1995. Paperback edition 1996, p. 200.
^George MacBeth (ed.): Poetry 1900 to 1975. Longman, 1979.
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