Louis MacNeice by Edna Longley
A guide to the poetry of Louis MacNeice and its lasting place in 20th-century literature. Edna Longley argues that MacNeice's work absorbed the communal experience of four decades, not just the 1930s, and enters into the life of the senses and the psyche.
Longley, Edna: - Edna Longley grew up in Dublin and was educated at Trinity College Dublin. For thirty-nine years she taught in the School of English at Queen's University Belfast, where she is now Professor Emerita. She is a Member of the Royal Irish Academy and a Fellow of the British Academy. Longley has written extensively on modern poetry, and is well known for her association, as critic, with the poetic movement in Northern Ireland since the 1960s. Her books include The Living Stream: Literature and Revisionism in Ireland (1994), Poetry and Posterity (2000) and her edition, Edward Thomas: The Annotated Collected Poems (2008). She has co-edited (with Peter Mackay and Fran Brearton) Modern Irish and Scottish Poetry (2011) and (with Fran Brearton) Incorrigibly Plural: Louis MacNeice and his Legacy (2012).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780571137480 |
| ISBN 10 | 0571137482 |
| Title | Louis MacNeice |
| Author | Edna Longley |
| Series | Student Guide |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Faber & Faber |
| Year published | 1988-08-31 |
| Number of pages | 192 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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