路易斯·麦克尼斯

路易斯·麦克尼斯（Louis MacNeice，1907—1963）生于北爱尔兰，在牛津大学读书时结识奥登，成为“奥登一代”的一员，他多才多艺，但主要是一名诗人。麦克尼斯至今都在英国有很大的影响，在爱尔兰的影响甚至能与叶芝和希尼相提并论，但这种评价来之不易，多数评论家一度没能及时欣赏到他晚期诗作的惊人突破而只是把他看成附属于“奥登一代”的一员，后来在希尼、德里克·马洪（Derek Mahon）、迈克尔·朗利（Michael Longley）和保罗·穆顿（Paul Muldoon）等后辈诗人的努力下人们才逐渐意识到麦克尼斯的重要性，穆顿更是把麦克尼斯视为爱尔兰当代诗歌的重要先驱之一。

Frederick Louis MacNeice was an Irish poet and playwright, and a member of the Auden Group, which also included W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender and Cecil Day-Lewis. MacNeice's body of work was widely appreciated by the public during his lifetime, due in part to his relaxed but socially and emotionally aware style. Never as overtly or simplistically political as some of his contemporaries, he expressed a humane opposition to totalitarianism as well as an acute awareness of his roots.