The collected poems of Rupert Brooke Book

I can't remember reading Louis MacNeice before diving into these Collected Poems. I was quickly in love with his poetry and never tired of reading him, though this is quite a large volume. MacNeice was a formal poet. He worked in formal structures and and meters and almost always with rhyme. Some poets find poetic formality restricting, find that it confines lyricism, but MacNeice soars. His poems ripple with energy and read so fluidly that, given the abundance of poetry he wrote, it makes me think it came naturally to him. He reminds me of Auden that way. Another reason for liking him is that his poems are verbally expansive and treat their subjects fully. There are few poems here I'd call short. My favorites are the poems of the 121-page "Autumn Sequel" containing 26 masterful cantos written in terza rima. I like Louis MacNeice, who left us, young, in 1963, as much as any new poet I've read recently.