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Collected Poems Limited Edition (leather)
Collected Poems Limited Edition (leather)
Longley, Michael
Published by Jonathan Cape, 2006
ISBN 10: 022407928XISBN 13: 9780224079280
Beautiful leather bound limited edition copy in matching green slipcase with silk page-marker. This is Number 188 of 200 copies. Michael Longley has been called ‘one of the finest lyric poets of our time’. In assembling the work of forty years, his Collected Poems displays a brilliantly sustained achievement whose depth, beauty and wit can now be fully appreciated. Longley’s genres span love poetry, war poetry, nature poetry, elegies, satires, verse epistles, poems that reflect on art and the art of poetry. He has extended the capacity of the lyric to absorb dark matter: the Great War, the Holocaust, the Northern Irish ‘Troubles’. His poetic landscape intermingles Belfast (where he lives), western Ireland, Italy, Japan and Homeric Greece. Longley’s superb translations from classical poets (such as ‘Ceasefire’, which greets the IRA ceasefire in terms of the Iliad) speak to contemporary issues while activating the deepest sources of European poetry. Collector’s Item. Seller Inventory # 629
Title: Collected Poems Limited Edition (leather)
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Publication Date: 2006
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: As New
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
Edition: Limited Edition
€345.00
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Collected Poems Limited Edition (leather)
Longley, Michael
Published by Jonathan Cape, 2006
ISBN 10: 022407928XISBN 13: 9780224079280
Beautiful leather bound limited edition copy in matching green slipcase with silk page-marker. This is Number 188 of 200 copies. Michael Longley has been called ‘one of the finest lyric poets of our time’. In assembling the work of forty years, his Collected Poems displays a brilliantly sustained achievement whose depth, beauty and wit can now be fully appreciated. Longley’s genres span love poetry, war poetry, nature poetry, elegies, satires, verse epistles, poems that reflect on art and the art of poetry. He has extended the capacity of the lyric to absorb dark matter: the Great War, the Holocaust, the Northern Irish ‘Troubles’. His poetic landscape intermingles Belfast (where he lives), western Ireland, Italy, Japan and Homeric Greece. Longley’s superb translations from classical poets (such as ‘Ceasefire’, which greets the IRA ceasefire in terms of the Iliad) speak to contemporary issues while activating the deepest sources of European poetry. Collector’s Item. Seller Inventory # 629
Title: Collected Poems Limited Edition (leather)
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Publication Date: 2006
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: As New
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
Edition: Limited Edition
