Letter to the Editor

Dear Editor,

Thanks to Conor O'Callaghan for his survey of the consonantal riches and symbolic aptness that so much of Louis MacNeice's poetry affords ["His Master's Voice," March 2007]. The fact that O'Callaghan omits several other fine poems from his discussion only testifies that MacNeice would be best served by a judicious selected poems. It is high time we regarded MacNeice not only as fully sprung from Auden's overcoat, but as never having sought refuge there in the first place.