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Edna Longley
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Edna Longley

Edna Longley is a Professor Emerita in the School of English, Queen’s University Belfast. Her publications include an edition of Edward Thomas’s prose writings, A Language Not To Be Betrayed (1981) from Carcanet, and four critical books: Louis MacNeice: A Study (1988) from Faber, and Poetry in the Wars (1986), The Living Stream: Literature & Revisionism in Ireland (1994) and Poetry & Posterity (2000) from Bloodaxe. She also edited The Bloodaxe Book of 20th Century Poetry (2000) and Edward Thomas: The Annotated Collected Poems (Bloodaxe, 2008).


Edna Longley's writing is linked to these categories:
Academic
Animal Poetry
Anthologies
Art/History Interest
Australian Poets
Humorous
Irish Poets
Literary Criticism
Mainstream
Mythology Interest
Philosophical Interest
Political/Social
Romanian
Translations
Women

 
 
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