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  • Yeats and Modern Poetry

    by Edna Longley ...
    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 ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • The Bloodaxe Book of 20th Century Poetry

    from Britain & Ireland

    by Edna Longley ...
    This epoch-marking anthology presents a map of poetry from Britain and Ireland which readers can follow. You will not get lost here as in other anthologies – with their vast lists of poets summoned up to serve a critic’s argument or to illustrate a journalistic overview. Instead, Edna Longley shows you the key poets of the century, and through interlinking commentary points up the connections ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Night Before Spring

    by Michael Longley ...
    A beautiful and elegiac final collection filled with people, places, departed friends, and the pleasures of natureWith an introduction by Edna Longley'One of the world's greats' IRISH NEWS'A keeper of the artistic estate, a custodian of griefs and wonders' SEAMUS HEANEYMichael Longley was a lyric poet of breathtaking depth and range, remarkable versatility and coherence. His preoccu... ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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  • Incorrigibly Plural

    Louis MacNeice and His Legacy

    Edited by Fran Brearton, Edna Longley ...
    Illuminating the work of a writer whose achievement and influence is increasingly recognized as central to modern poetry in English, this record is a celebration of the diversity and vitality of Louis MacNeice's writing. With contributions by fellow poets and critics—such as Neil Corcoran, Paul Farley, Leontia Flynn, Derek Mahon, Peter McDonald, and Clair Wills among others—it features a memoir by ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Modern Irish and Scottish Poetry

    Edited by Peter Mackay, Edna Longley, Fran Brearton ...
    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 ... Read more

    $46.39 CAD

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  • The Redress of Poetry

    by Seamus Heaney ...
    These lectures were delivered by Seamus Heaney while he was Professor of Poetry at Oxford University. In the first of them, Heaney discusses and celebrates poetry's special ability to redress spiritual balance and to function as a counterweight to hostile and oppressive forces in the world. He proceeds to explore how this 'redress' manifests itself in a diverse range of poems and poets, including ... Read more

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    by Ronald Carter, John McRae ...
    The Routledge History of Literature in English covers the main developments in the history of British and Irish literature, with accompanying language notes which explore the interrelationships between language and literature at each stage. With a span from AD 600 to the present day, it emphasises the growth of literary writing, its traditions, conventions and changing characteristics, and ... Read more

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  • A Scientific Romance

    by Ronald Wright ...
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  • Opened Ground

    by Seamus Heaney ...
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    real poems for unreal times

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