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

这个项目探讨了美国对路易·麦克尼斯(1907-1963)诗歌和审美想象的影响。它考察了他对爱默生、惠特曼和艾略特的形成过程的解读，然后追溯了麦克尼斯与他的美国同时代人，包括弗罗斯特、毕晓普、威廉姆斯、史蒂文斯和卡明斯之间的互文典故和相互影响的线。结合正式的分析和修正的档案研究，它试图第一次绘制出诗人在美国的批评性接受情况。最后，它认为，鉴于麦克尼斯在大西洋彼岸的经历，有必要对他进行批判性的重新定位，以阐明他的榜样促成了后来的爱尔兰和美国的交流。

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.