Zoo
'I go the zoo half just since I like hunting at the animals and half due to the reality I like searching for at the folks... The pleasure of dappled issues, the elegance of adaptation to aim, the glory of extravagance, conventional elegance or romantic nonsense and grotesquerie - all these we get from the Zoo.' In 1938 Louis MacNeice published his 2nd assortment of poems with Faber his 'personal essay' Current day Poetry for OUP and Zoo , a prose commission from Michael Joseph to compose an impressionistic 'guide' to the London Zoo in Regents Park. Envisioned as a breezy assignment MacNeice's Zoo inevitably grew to flip into a richer endeavour, taking in side-journeys to Paris and Belfast. Zoo also benefited from illustrations by the painter Nancy Sharp, with whom MacNeice had begun an affair soon after moving to London in 1936. This Faber Finds edition returns to circulation a delightful rarity by 1 of the twentieth century's most brilliant poets.
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