He was born in Ireland in 1904 and died in Londra in 1972. He was the son of a shephard and he took a degree in Oxford; together with L.Mac Nice, S. Spender and W. H. Auden he was part of that group of young writers called of the "thirties" : they shared a political and social engagement and an interest in Karl Marx’s and Freud’s doctrines; these poets set as to main task, stricter relationship to reality. He appeared as one of the greatest exponent of this movement with " A hope for poetry" (1943). Among his works we can remember "The magnetic Mountain" (1953), "Word over all" ( 1943) and " The room" (1965).