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MacNeice the Heraclitean
- Philosophy and Literature
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 45, Number 2, October 2021
- pp. 315-328
- 10.1353/phl.2021.0032
- Article
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Abstract
Abstract:
Many of the poems and essays of Louis MacNeice display a knowledge of the philosophical theories he studied during his undergraduate years in Merton College, Oxford. In his "Variation on Heraclitus" and in several other poems, MacNeice alludes to the "doctrine of flux" that Plato attributed to the Greek thinker Heraclitus of Ephesus. Though the view of Heraclitus as the champion of flux is controversial, it provided MacNeice with a framework within which to reflect on the conditions essential to living a free and productive life.
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