Edna Longley
Biographic Data
| ID | 1171841 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Edna Longley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Edna |
| FAMILY NAME | Longley |
| SIGNATURE | LONGLEY E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen's University Belfast |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Edward Thomas
Yeats and Modern Poetry
Scholars and critics commonly align W. B. Yeats with Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot and the modernist movement at large. This incisive study from renowned poetry critic Edna Longley argues that Yeats' presence and influence in modern poetry have been sorely misunderstood. Longley disputes the value of modernist critical paradigms and suggests alternative perspectives for interpreting Yeats - perspectives based on his own criticism, and on how Ireland sh…
W. B. Yeats
W. B. Yeats's poetry is littered with the words ‘violence’ and ‘violent’, from ‘No Second Troy’ to ‘Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen’, ‘Under Ben Bulben’, and ‘Cuchulain Comforted’. His 1921 poem ‘Ancestral Houses’ begins ‘Meditations in Time of Civil War’, in which ‘violence’ also shifts between historical and psychic eruptions, as well as between the overlapping spheres of war, politics, creativity, and sexuality. The more Yeats's poems prefer dec…
Modern Irish and Scottish Poetry
The comparative study of the literatures of Ireland and Scotland has emerged as a distinct and buoyant field in recent years. This collection of new essays offers the first sustained comparison of modern Irish and Scottish poetry, featuring close readings of texts within broad historical and political contextualisation. Playing on influences, crossovers, connections, disconnections and differences, the 'affinities' and 'opposites' traced in this …
A Dozen Lips
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A Dozen Lips
Modern Irish and Scottish Poetry
The comparative study of the literatures of Ireland and Scotland has emerged as a distinct and buoyant field in recent years. This collection of new essays offers the first sustained comparison of modern Irish and Scottish poetry, featuring close readings of texts within broad historical and political contextualisation. Playing on influences, crossovers, connections, disconnections and differences, the 'affinities' and 'opposites' traced in this …
W. B. Yeats
W. B. Yeats's poetry is littered with the words ‘violence’ and ‘violent’, from ‘No Second Troy’ to ‘Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen’, ‘Under Ben Bulben’, and ‘Cuchulain Comforted’. His 1921 poem ‘Ancestral Houses’ begins ‘Meditations in Time of Civil War’, in which ‘violence’ also shifts between historical and psychic eruptions, as well as between the overlapping spheres of war, politics, creativity, and sexuality. The more Yeats's poems prefer dec…
Yeats and Modern Poetry
Scholars and critics commonly align W. B. Yeats with Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot and the modernist movement at large. This incisive study from renowned poetry critic Edna Longley argues that Yeats' presence and influence in modern poetry have been sorely misunderstood. Longley disputes the value of modernist critical paradigms and suggests alternative perspectives for interpreting Yeats - perspectives based on his own criticism, and on how Ireland sh…
Edward Thomas
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