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?

<P0-S0> The Earth Compels was the second poetry collection by Louis MacNeice. <P0-S1>  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". <SEP> <P1-S0> Thomas McCarthy (born 1954) is an Irish poet, novelist, and critic, born in Cappoquin, Co. <P1-S1>  Waterford, Ireland. <P1-S2>  He attended University College Cork where he was part of a resurgence of literary activity under the inspiration of John Montague. <P1-S3>  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. <P1-S4>  McCarthy edited, at various times, The Cork Review and Poetry Ireland Review. <P1-S5>  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". <P1-S6>  The main themes of his poetry are Southern Irish politics, love and memory. <P1-S7>  He is also the author of two novels; "Without Power" and "Asya and Christine". <P1-S8>  He is married with two children and lives in Cork City where he works in the City Libraries. <P1-S9>  He won the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award in 1977. <P1-S10>  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. <SEP> <P2-S0> "Epilogue For W. H. Auden" is a 76-line poem by Louis MacNeice. <P2-S1>  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). <P2-S2>  MacNeice subsequently included it as the last poem in his poetry collection "The Earth Compels" (1938). <P2-S3>  "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. <SEP> <P3-S0>  He was part of the generation of the Auden Group that included W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender and Cecil Day-Lewis. <P3-S1> Frederick Louis MacNeice CBE (12 September 1907 – 3 September 1963) was an Irish poet and playwright. <P3-S2>  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. <P3-S3>  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.