The Living Stream by Edna Longley
Edna Longleys essays investigate the links between Irish literature, culture and politics. By questioning the xed purposes of both nationalism and unionism, literature has helped to make living streams ow in Ireland. Edna Longley shows in particular where recent Northern Irish writing ts into this process of change.
Unlike many books on modern poetry, this one has a powerful, disruptive case to make and a genuine raison d’être… a fiercely unrelenting and implacable critical intelligence at work-- Neil Corcoran * TLS *
Combative, rigorously argued, passionate essays aimed at saving poetry from the politicians. -- John Banville * Sunday Independent *
Combative, rigorously argued, passionate essays aimed at saving poetry from the politicians. -- John Banville * Sunday Independent *
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 Poetry & Posterity (2000) from Bloodaxe. She also edited The Bloodaxe Book of 20th Century Poetry (2000) and Edward Thomas: The Annotated Collected Poems (Bloodaxe Books, 2008).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781852242176 |
| ISBN 10 | 1852242175 |
| Title | The Living Stream |
| Author | Edna Longley |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bloodaxe Books Ltd |
| Year published | 1994-07-21 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
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