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Poet:

Michael Longley

b. 1939 d.

Nationality/Ethnicity

Ireland (Belfast)

   

 

Select Bibliography for discussions of Michael Longley's classical poems:

 

 

Allen Randolph, J. and Douglas, A (eds.), 2003, Colby Quarterly: Michael Longley Special Issue, xxxix/3 (September)

Brearton, F., 2006, Reading Michael Longley, Tarset, Bloodaxe Books (contains full bibliography for Longley's work in general, including Interviews).

Brearton, F., 1997, ‘”Walking forwards into the past': An Interview with Michael Longley', Irish Studies Review 19, spring, 35-9.

Clark, H., 2006, The Ulster Renaissance: Poetry in Belfast 1962-1972, Oxford, Oxford University Press.

L Hardwick, 2009, ‘Is the ‘silken thread' worth more than ‘a fart in a bearskin'? or How Translation practice matters in poetry and drama' in SJ Harrison (ed.), Living Classics, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp.172-193.

Hardwick, L., 2007, ‘Singing Across the Faultlines: cultural shifts in twentieth-century receptions of Homer' in Graziosi, B. and Greenwood, E. (eds.), Homer in the Twentieth Century: Between World Literature and the Western Canon, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 47-71.

Hardwick, L., 2006, ‘Murmurs in the Cathedral': the Impact of Translations from Greek Poetry and Drama on Modern Work in English by Michael Longley and Seamus Heaney', Yearbook of English Studies vol.36.1, Special Issue: Translation, Leeds, Modern Humanities Research Association, 204-15.

Hardwick, L., 2004, ‘Shards and Suckers: Contemporary Receptions of Homer' in Fowler, R. (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Homer, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 344-62.

Healy, D., 1995, ‘Interview with Michael Longley', Southern Review 31, 557-61.

Longley, M., 2009 forthcoming, ‘Lapsed Classicist' in Harrison, S.J. (ed.), Living Classics, Oxford, Oxford University Press.

Peacock, A.J. and Devine, K. (eds), 2000, The Poetry of Michael Longley: Ulster Editions and Monographs 10, Gerards Cross, Colin Smyth.

Taplin, O., 2007, ‘Some assimilations of the Homeric Simile in later twentieth-century poetry' in Graziosi and Greenwood (eds.), 177-90.