Louis MacNeice

Written between August and December 1938, this is a moving testament of living through the thirties. It is a record of the author's emotional and intellectual experience during those months, the trivia of everyday living set against the events of the world outside.

The sequel to Autumn Journal which McNeice described as a long occasional poem written in the final months of that year. Coming fifteen years later in 1953, Autumn Sequel (subtitled A Rhetorical Poem in XXVI cantos) is written in a similar style.