Question: The Earth Compels was the second poetry collection by which Irish poet and playwright, and  was part of the generation of the Auden Group?
Context: June Thunder is a 28-line poem by Louis MacNeice.  It was first published in book form in MacNeice's poetry collection The Earth Compels (1938).  The poem begins with memories of idyllic summer days in the countryside - "the unenduring / Joys of a season" - before returning to the present and "impending thunder".  "June Thunder" is written in a loose form of the sapphic stanza, with three lines set in falling rhythm followed by a shorter fourth line.  The poem was anthologised in "A New Anthology of Modern Verse 1920-1940" (1941), edited by Cecil Day-Lewis and L.A.G. Strong, and "Penguin New Writing" No. 2 (January 1941). Human Chain (2010) is the twelfth and final poetry collection by Seamus Heaney, who received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.  It won the Forward Poetry Prize Best Collection 2010 award, the Irish Times Poetry Now Award for 2011, and was shortlisted for the 2011 Griffin Poetry Prize.  This was Heaney's second Poetry Now Award, having previously won in 2007 for "District and Circle". "Epilogue For W. H. Auden" is a 76-line poem by Louis MacNeice.  It was written in late 1936 and was first published in book form in "Letters from Iceland", a travel book in prose and verse by W. H. Auden and Louis MacNeice (1937).  MacNeice subsequently included it as the last poem in his poetry collection "The Earth Compels" (1938).  "Epilogue For W. H. Auden" reviews the Iceland trip MacNeice and Auden had taken together in the summer of 1936; the poem mentions events that had occurred while MacNeice and Auden were in Iceland, such as the fall of Seville (marking the start of the Spanish Civil War) and the Olympic Games in Berlin. Frederick Louis MacNeice CBE (12 September 1907 – 3 September 1963) was an Irish poet and playwright.  He was part of the generation of the Auden Group that included W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender and Cecil Day-Lewis.  MacNeice's body of work was widely appreciated by the public during his lifetime, due in part to his relaxed, but socially and emotionally aware style.  Never as overtly (or simplistically) political as some of his contemporaries, his work shows a humane opposition to totalitarianism as well as an acute awareness of his Irish roots. Carrickfergus is a 44-line poem by Louis MacNeice.  It was written in 1937 and first published in book form in MacNeice's poetry collection "The Earth Compels" (1938).  The poem reflects on MacNeice's childhood in Carrickfergus, a large town in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.  Although the title of the poem is "Carrickfergus", the text of the poem refers to "Carrick", as the town is known locally and colloquially. Thomas McCarthy (born 1954) is an Irish poet, novelist, and critic, born in Cappoquin, Co.  Waterford, Ireland.  He attended University College Cork where he was part of a resurgence of literary activity under the inspiration of John Montague.  Among his contemporaries, described by Thomas Dillon Redshaw as "that remarkable generation," there were Theo Dorgan poet and memoirist, Sean Dunne, poet, Greg Delanty, poet, Maurice Riordan poet and William Wall, novelist and poet.  McCarthy edited, at various times, The Cork Review and Poetry Ireland Review.  He has published seven collections of poetry with Anvil Press Poetry, London, including " The Sorrow Garden", "The Lost Province", "Mr Dineen's Careful Parade", "The Last Geraldine Officer" ("a major achievement", in the view of academic and poet Maurice Harmon)and "Merchant Prince", described as "an ambitious and substantive book".  The main themes of his poetry are Southern Irish politics, love and memory.  He is also the author of two novels; "Without Power" and "Asya and Christine".  He is married with two children and lives in Cork City where he works in the City Libraries.  He won the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award in 1977.  His monograph "Rising from the Ashes" tells the story of the burning of the Carnegie Free Library in Cork City by the Black and Tans in 1920 and the subsequent efforts to rebuild the collection with the help of donors from all over the world. The Earth Compels was the second poetry collection by Louis MacNeice.  It was published by Faber and Faber on 28 April 1938, and was one of four books by Louis MacNeice to appear in 1938, along with "I Crossed the Minch", "Modern Poetry: A Personal Essay" and "Zoo". Matthew Zapruder (born 1967 in Washington, D.C.) is an American poet, editor, translator, and professor.  His second poetry collection, "The Pajamaist" (Copper Canyon Press, 2006), won the 2007 William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America, and was chosen by "Library Journal" as one of the top ten poetry volumes of 2006.  His first book, "American Linden" (Tupelo Press, 2002) won the Tupelo Press Editors' Prize.  His most recent book of poetry, "Sun Bear" (Copper Canyon Press, 2014), brings the strangeness of poetry closer to everyday life. The Sunlight on the Garden is a 24-line poem by Louis MacNeice.  It was written in late 1936 and was entitled "Song" at its first appearance in print, in The Listener magazine, January 1937.  It was first published in book form as the third poem in MacNeice's poetry collection The Earth Compels (1938).  The poem explores themes of time and loss, along with anxiety about the darkening political situation in Europe following the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War.  It is one of the best known and most anthologized of MacNeice's short poems.  George Macbeth describes it as "one of MacNeice's saddest and most beautiful lyrics". Rugby Football Excursion is a 44-line poem by Louis MacNeice.  It was written in 1938 and first published in book form in MacNeice's poetry collection The Earth Compels (1938).  The poem recounts an excursion taken by MacNeice from London to Dublin, in order to watch a rugby football match at Lansdowne Road stadium.  MacNeice does not specify the occasion, but internal evidence from the poem establishes the match as a rugby football international between Ireland and England on 12 February 1938; England won the match by 36 points to 14.
Answer: Louis MacNeice