Edna Longley
Edna Longley is a Professor Emerita at Queen’s University Blfast. She has written extensively on modern Irish and British poetry, and has edited Edward Thomas: The Annotated Collected Poems (Bloodaxe, 2008). Her most recent monographs are Yeats and Modern Poetry (Cambridge University Press, 2012), Incorrigibly Plural: Louis MacNeice and his Legacy (with Fran Brearton, Carcanet, 2012) and Under the Same Moon: Edward Thomas and the English Lyric (Enitharmon Press, 2017). She is currently editing for OUP the critical writings of Edward Thomas.
Under the Same Moon: Edward Thomas and the English Lyric
Under the Same Moon: Edward Thomas and the English Lyric
A hundred years ago Edward Thomas was killed in the Battle of Arras (April 1917). The reputation of his poetry has never been higher. Professor Edna Longley has already edited Thomas’s poems and prose. She now adds to the growing field of Thomas studies, with this close reading of Thomas's poetry. Longley places the lyric poem at the centre of Thomas’s poetry and of his thinking about poetry. Drawing on Thomas’s own remarkable critical writings, she argues that his importance to emergent ‘modern poetry’ has yet to be fully appreciated. Thomas,...
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