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Poetry and Posterity
Edna Longley (Ed.)
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Description for Poetry and Posterity
Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 139 x 22. Weight in Grams: 478.
Edna Longley’s latest collection of critical essays marks a move back from Irish culture and politics to poetry itself as the critic’s central concern. She considers how poets are read and received at different times and in different contexts, by academics as well as by a wider readership, and from Irish, English and American viewpoints. But her interest in the reception of poetry is still very much in?uenced by debates about literature and politics in a Northern Ireland context, and in the book’s ?nal essay she relates poetry to the “peace process”. In two of these essays, The ... Read more
Edna Longley’s latest collection of critical essays marks a move back from Irish culture and politics to poetry itself as the critic’s central concern. She considers how poets are read and received at different times and in different contexts, by academics as well as by a wider readership, and from Irish, English and American viewpoints. But her interest in the reception of poetry is still very much in?uenced by debates about literature and politics in a Northern Ireland context, and in the book’s ?nal essay she relates poetry to the “peace process”. In two of these essays, The ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781852244354
SKU
V9781852244354
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99-15
About Edna Longley (Ed.)
Edna Longley is a Professor Emerita in the School of English, Queen’s University Belfast. Her publications include an edition of Edward Thomas’s prose writings, A Language Not To Be Betrayed (1981) from Carcanet, and four critical books: Louis MacNeice: A Study (1988) from Faber, and Poetry in the Wars (1986), The Living Stream: Literature & Revisionism in Ireland (1994) and ... Read more
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