Word: gleeman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...group, MacNeice had the most gaily matter-of-fact and the most realistically despairing things to say. His three exciting Eclogues (For Christmas, By a Five-Barred Gate, From Iceland) established him among modern-poetry readers as the gleeman-laureate of England's cushy post-World War I civilization and of its dismal decline. And in his shorter lyrics MacNeice had many high-spirited skirmishes with reality...
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