"A Country of Prisms and Fountains": Louis MacNeice and the USA

本项目探讨美国对路易斯·麦克尼斯（Louis MacNeice, 1907-1963）诗歌和审美想象的影响。在探究麦克尼斯与弗罗斯特、毕晓普、威廉姆斯、史蒂文斯和卡明斯等同时代美国人的互文典意和相互影响之前，本书考察了他对爱默生、惠特曼和艾略特的形成性阅读。它将形式分析与修正性档案研究相结合，试图首次描绘出这位诗人在美国受到的批评。最后，本书认为，有必要根据麦克尼斯的跨大西洋经历对他进行批判性的重新定位，以阐明后来以他为榜样促成的爱尔兰-美国交流。

This project explores the influence of the United States on the poetry and aesthetic imaginary of Louis MacNeice (1907-1963). It examines his formative readings of Emerson, Whitman, and Eliot, before tracing intertextual allusions and lines of reciprocal influence between MacNeice and his American contemporaries, including Frost, Bishop, Williams, Stevens, and Cummings. Combining formal analysis with revisionary archival research, it seeks to map, for the first time, the poet's critical reception in the US. Finally, it argues that a critical re-orientation of MacNeice in light of his transatlantic experience is necessary to illuminate the later Irish-American exchanges that his example enabled.