In assembling the work of forty years, Longleyâ€™s Collected Poems displays a brilliantly sustained achievement, whose depth, beauty, and wit can now be fully appreciated. Longleyâ€™s

Collected Poems | Michael Longley
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In assembling the work of forty years, Longleyâ€™s Collected Poems displays a brilliantly sustained achievement, whose depth, beauty, and wit can now be fully appreciated. Longleyâ€™s poetry combines intense concentration with remarkable variety. The formal and thematic range laid down in No Continuing City (1969) has undergone a series of rich metamorphoses up to Snow Water (2004), and the two new poems included here as an epilogue. Longleyâ€™s genres span love poetry, war poetry, nature poetry, elegies, satires, verse epistles, poems that reflect on art and the art of poetry. He has extended the capacity of the lyric to absorb dark matter: the Great War, the Holocaust, the Northern Irish Troubles. His poetic landscape intermingles Belfast (where he lives), western Ireland, Italy, Japan and Homeric Greece. Longleyâ€™s superb translations from classical poets (such as Â“Ceasefire,â€ which greets the IRA ceasefire in terms of The Iliad) speak to contemporary issues while activating the deepest sources of European poetry.
Country USA
Brand Wake Forest University Press
Manufacturer Wake Forest University Press
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber RKC2009354163
ReleaseDate 2007-03-06
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781930630314

Country	USA
Brand	Wake Forest University Press
Manufacturer	Wake Forest University Press
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	RKC2009354163
ReleaseDate	2007-03-06
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781930630314

Collected Poems | Michael Longley