Relates the development of Michael Longleys poetry to the literary andpolitical history of Northern Ireland and to the Irish poetic tradition fromYeats. In plac... » 

Relates the development of Michael Longleys poetry to the literary andpolitical history of Northern Ireland and to the Irish poetic tradition fromYeats. In placing Longleys poetry in a network of cultural influences andevaluating its critical reception this study also engages with key debates inthe criticism of modern poetry in English. «