Living Stream - Annotated by Edna Longley (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Edna Longley's essays investigate the links between Irish literature, culture and politics. By questioning the fixed purposes of both nationalism and unionism, literature has helped to make living streams flow in Ireland. Edna Longley shows in particular where recent Northern Irish writing fits into this process of change.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Edna Longley's second collection of essays for Bloodaxe investigates the links between Irish literature (especially contemporary poetry), Irish culture and Irish politics. The Living Stream takes its title from Yeats's poem 'Easter 1916' 'Hearts with one purpose alone/ Through summer and winter seem/ Enchanted to a stone/ To trouble the living stream...' By questioning the fixed purposes of both nationalism and unionism, literature has helped to make living streams flow in Ireland. Edna Longley shows in particular where recent Northern Irish writing, together with the critical debates it has occasioned, fits into this process of change. In her introduction, which includes a hard-hitting critique of The Field Day Anthology, Edna Longley argues that it's time for Irish literary criticism to adopt the "revisionist" approach that characterises the writing of Irish history, which would mean paying more attention to religious factors, to literary relations with Britain, and to the cultural diversity that underlies creative diversity. These ideas inform her consideration of such topics as: the historical imaginations of Northern Irish poets; Belfast in literature; Protestant writers after Irish Independence; the Thirties generation of Northern Irish writers; the influence of Louis MacNeice; aesthetic differences between poetry from the North and from the Republic. The book also contains a reflection on the 75th anniversary of the Easter Rising, and Edna Longley's controversial pamphlet From Cathleen to Anorexia: The Breakdown of Irelands.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Unlike many books on modern poetry, this one has a powerful, disruptive case to make and a genuine raison d'être... a fiercely unrelenting and implacable critical intelligence at work."-Neil Corcoran, TLS<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>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 Books, 2008).
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