| Selected Poems Michael Longley Contributor(s): Longley, Michael (Author) |
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ISBN: 091639090X ISBN-13: 9780916390907 Publisher: Wake Forest University Press OUR PRICE: $18.86 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 1999 Annotation: In Michael Longley's own selection from thirty years of writing, humane and lyrical poems express intimacies of love and grief within his deeply disturbed province. His sympathy and acute eye extend from ordinary neighbors to the most vulnerable forms in nature. Recently he has returned more frequently to his roots in classical literature to portray his own society aslant through refashionings of episodes of Homer and Ovid. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 821.914 |
| LCCN: 98-61875 |
| Physical Information: 0.66" H x 5.44" W x 8.2" (0.70 lbs) 140 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Ireland - Ethnic Orientation - Irish |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This is Michael Longley's own selection from thirty years of writing. It reveals the strength and coherence of an extraordinary body of work, which has been celebrated--in Britain and Ireland, but also in the United States--for its lyric intensity, metaphysical wit, and thematic and formal range. Includes selections from No Continuing City (1969), An Exploded View (1973), Man Lying on a Wall (1976), The Echo Gate (1979), New Poems, Gorse Fires (1991), and The Ghost Orchid (1995). |