index McDonald, H. C. 160
MacDonald,Nina 106
McDonald, Peter 288, 378, 712, 716–17
MacDonald, Robert 23
MacDonell, Alasdair Dubh 329
MacFarlane, Robert 721, 722
MacGill, Patrick 161
Machiavelli, Niccolo 135 MacInnes, Mairi 512 Mackintosh, Alan 168–72 and Highland traditions 168–9, 170–1 ‘Cha Till MacCruimein’ 171 ‘Mallaig Bay’ 170 ‘Return’ 169–70 ‘The Remembered Gods’ 169 ‘The Volunteer’ 170 Maclaren-Ross, Julian 366 Maclean, John 330–1 MacLean, Sorley 318, 326–30, 433–4 ‘An Cuilithionn’/’The Cuillin’ 327 ‘Curaidhean’/’Heroes’ 328–9 Dain do Eimhir sequence 326–8
‘Dol an Iar’/’Going Westward’ 328
‘Glac a’ Bhais’/’Death Valley’ 329`
‘Knightsbridge, Libia’ 327
‘Latha Foghair’/’An Autumn Day’ 329–30
Macleay, John 26
Macmillan, Harold 633–4
MacNeice, Louis 118, 431, 435
and Auden 215, 216
and pastoral poetry 475, 476–8
on poetry 1, 2
and politics and poetry 365
andSecondWorldWar
Blitz 388–90
commitment to 378–9, 383, 395
common purpose 387–8
death 383–4, 386–7, 389–91, 393–4
Eleanor Clark 380–1, 382–3
father’s death 393–4
guilt 394–5
individual’s role 396
Ireland 379, 381–2, 395–6
journalism 388–9
marriage 397
return to England 377–8, 383, 386, 387
stylite image 385–6
suicide 386–7
in United States 382–3
work for BBC 377, 387–8
on Wordsworth 473
‘Autobiography’ 387, 392
Autumn Journal261–3, 381, 674
‘Bar-Room Matins’ 434
‘Broken Windows or Thinking Aloud’ 390,
391
‘Brother Fire’ 388, 389, 517
The Burning Perch377, 396
‘Coming from Nowhere’ 386
‘Convoy’ 391–2
The Dark Tower379, 397
‘Eclogue from Iceland’ 261, 475, 476–7
‘Entirely’ 384–5
‘Last Will and Testament’ 477
‘Letter to Graham and Anne Shepard’ 477–8
Letters from Iceland473, 475–6, 477
‘London Letters 388
‘Neutrality’ 395–6, 397
‘Novelettes’ 390–1
Plant and Phantom377, 383, 384, 397
Poems 1925–1940 383
‘Postscript’ 397
‘Prayer before Birth’ 394
‘Prayer in Mid-Passage’ 390
Solstices396, 718
Springboard377, 388, 390, 391, 392, 394, 395,
396, 397
The Strings Are False250, 379, 381–2, 386,
387
‘Stylite’ 385–6
‘Suicide’ 390–1
‘The Casualty’ 392–3
‘The Closing Album’ 381–2, 473, 478
‘The Coming of War’ 379–81
‘The Death-Wish’ 386–7
‘The Expert’ 390
‘The Introduction’ 392
‘The Kingdom’ 391, 393–4
‘The Springboard’ 396–7
‘The Sunlight on the Garden’ 384
‘The Trolls’ 389–90, 517, 518
‘Thyestes’ 394
‘Troll’s Courtship’ 390, 393
‘Whit Monday’ 397
MacPherson, James, andOssian 670
Mahon, Derek 216
and epic 674–6
‘A Disused Shed in Co Wexford’ 675–6
‘The Last of the Fire Kings’ 294 n54, 675
Makin, Peter 624
Mametz Wood, battle of 187, 194
Manchester Guardian 196
Mandela, Nelson 701
Mandelstam, Olip 651
Mangan, James Clarence, and ‘Dark
Rosaleen’ 672
Manifold, John 433, 435
Mann, Erica 476