... Fenton Geoffrey Hill Patrick Kavanagh Michael Longley Adrian Mitchell Paul Muldoon Gary Snyder Edward Thomas William Carlos Williams C4.P1 Shakespeare’s scepticism about the naming of dramatic genres is indicated by his assigning to the tedious and overcircumstantial Polonius the task...

... modern Irish poetry and the visual arts, focusing on the works of various poets such as Yeats, Seamus Heaney, Louis MacNeice, Brian Coffey, Padraic Fallon, Michael Longley, and Derek Mahon. Amis Kingsley Blake William Branusci Constantin Lane Hugh Lewis Wyndham Pater Walter Quattrocento art...

... poets who write sonnets are Ciaran Carson, Seamus Heaney, Leontia Flynn, Michael Longley, John Montague, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, and David Wheatley. But it was Paul Muldoon who predominated over this phenomenon. Carson Ciaran Crotty Patrick Flynn Leontia Hartnett Michael Heaney Seamus Kavanagh...

... the patronizing stereotype of the self-educated peasant farmer; and Michael Longley, a confidently and unashamedly learned poet who places himself on an equal footing with the Roman writers. Boland Eavan Heaney Seamus Homer Hughes Ted Kavanagh Patrick Longley Michael Walcott Derek Baudrillard Jean Kerr...

... of Matthew Arnold and F. W. Newman in the nineteenth. It concludes with a survey of classical translator statements in twentieth- and twenty-first-century English poetry, from Ezra Pound to Michael Longley and Anne Carson. Chapman George Hall Author Homer Purfoote Thomas Cicero Cowley Abraham Dryden...

..., and translations from Josephine Balmer’s Classical Women Poets (1996), as well as versions by Diane Rayor and Michael Longley, it explores the creative leaps that working on such incomplete, tattered sources might require. Sappho Balmer Josephine footnotes Godard Barbara McEwan Ian...

... digitis quinque legatur, onus (14) Pondered by the earth. While my reward is pondered by the earth (108) dum pretium vitae grata rependit humus (100) This chapter investigates the reception of Roman elegy in the work of W. B. Yeats and Michael Longley, a continuum that brings to light both...

... debate on Yeats. The question of form in contemporary theory has a special relevance for Northern Irish poetry since the early 1960s. This chapter also looks at Yeats's critical quarrel with Northern Irish poets such as Michael Longley and Paul Muldoon. Auden W H Deane Seamus Donoghue Denis Yeats W B...

...Michael Longley writes of Jamie: 'She has perfect pitch, a natural sense of cadence and verbal melody that helps to give her work the feel of organic inevitability'. Longley flies close to the heart of his own work, revealing their shared aesthetic practice, central to which is the idea of poetry...

... Michael Longley Irish poetry Poetic form The Troubles Celtic Tiger Lyric One feature of Irish poetry and of the preponderance of the criticism it has spawned makes it singular among contemporary anglophone poetries: its resolutely anti-theoretical, not to say anti-intellectual bias. Where rigorous...

... Carlos Williams, W. H. Auden, Louise Bennett, Louis MacNeice, Frank O’Hara, Robert Duncan, Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley, Carolyn Forché, and Jorie Graham have refashioned poetry to absorb news stories, newspaper headlines, and news vocabulary. But poetry has defined itself against the news at the same...

...This chapter opens up a dialogue between recent scholarship on Homeric similes, and the creative use of these similes in the poetry of Christopher Logue, Michael Longley, and Derek Walcott. In its reading of the modern poems, it analyzes how the Homeric simile is used to map the distance between...

...This chapter examines the genesis and global reception of Michael Longley’s ‘Ceasefire’, offering a close reading of its relationship with Homer’s Iliad. Both Longley and Homer share a concern with decorum in bereavement. Of the many bereaved in the Northern Irish conflict some...

... into translation with the version of part of the Odyssey at the start of Pound's Cantos. More recently it has flourished in the ‘freeze‐frames’ from Homer made by the Belfast poet Michael Longley, which I discuss at some length. Cowper William Dryden John translation Arnold...

...This chapter reviews Michael Dickman's Flies, Henri Cole's Touch, Katherine Larson's Radial Symmetry, Billy Collins's Horoscopes for the Dead, Michael Longley's A Hundred Doors, and Geoffrey Hill's Clavics...

... republican leaders, and the British and Irish governments, from 1986 through 1994, to convince the IRA to end its military campaign. It examines key issues involved, with reference to works by Seamus Heaney and Michael Longley which approach the then contemporary politics of Northern Ireland through...

... Feb. 1995 7 Mar. 1995 9 July 1995 11 July 1995 8 Sept. 1995 28 Nov. 1995 30 Nov. 1995 24 Jan. 1996 9 Feb. 1996 21 Mar. 1996 Chronology xvii the IRA announces a complete cessation of military operations Michael Longley s poem Ceasefire published in the Irish Times the Combined Loyalist Military...

... adaptations of Homer have been preoccupied with the question of roots. Focusing on the poetry of Michael Longley, and Derek Walcott's The Odyssey: A Stage Version, the chapter suggests that although contemporary Homeric receptions often converge on the same scenes, the receptions are rooted...