MacNeice is the goods all right. Here are the titles of two other poems you should all know, to be found in the Faber Selected, edited by Auden. They are both on the web, the second one read by MacNeice himself. He was at the BBC when that meant something. Unlike Auden he was attracted to women and they were attracted to him, even though he looked like a lugubrious camel. No he didn't. Actually he looked rather dashing.
The Streets of Laredo
Bagpipe Music (a great poem in my opinion. I read it first when I was sixteen). It should be in any anthology of 20th century verse in English.
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