Michael Longley ( born Michael Longley ; July 27, 1939 , Belfast , Northern Ireland ) is a poet from Northern Ireland. In the 1960s included in the Belfast group of poets.
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Biography
Michael Longley was born in 1940 in Belfast . Graduated from Trinity College Dublin ; subsequently taught classical philology there. For 20 years, he headed the department of literature and folk art at the Northern Ireland Art Council [4] .
From 1963 to 1966 Michael Longley participated in the meetings of the so-called Belfast group of poets. In addition to this group, such famous Irish poets as Sheimas Heaney , Paul Muldoon and others [5]
Michael Longley is a member of Aosdana , an Irish association of artists and writers that includes 200 of the most prominent artists. [6]
Wife - famous literary critic Edna Longley . Spouses have three children [4] .
Creativity
The study of classical philology left its mark on the work of Longley: in his poetry mythological reminiscences and references to the works of Homer and Ovid are frequent [7] . At the same time, most of these poems in one way or another have something in common with contemporary poetry, and they allude to allusions to political events in Northern Ireland [8] .
The main themes of Longley's poetry are war, death, nature, love [9] . His lyrics are characterized by restrained intonation, elegiac contemplation, attention to detail and form, the ability to touch upon complex and deep topics, remaining within the framework of a concise, compact verse [8] [9] .
Rewards
In 1991, Michael Longley received the Whitbread Prize for his collection of Gorse Fires . In 2000, The Weather in Japan was immediately awarded two prizes: the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Hawthorne Prize [10] . In 2001, Longley received the Royal Gold Medal for poetry . In 2010, he became Commander of the Order of the British Empire [8] . In 2011, the poet was awarded the London Prize in the field of art. In 2012, his collection “ A Hundred Doors ” won the Poetry Now Award in [11] .
Michael Longley is an Honorary Doctor at Queens University Belfast and Trinity College Dublin.
Notes
- ↑ SNAC - 2010.
- ↑ German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 119471914 // General regulatory control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ BNF ID : 2011 Open Data Platform .
- ↑ 1 2 Website of Wake Forest University Press
- ↑ History of the Belfast Group
- ↑ Aosdana Association website
- ↑ Poetryarchive.org website
- ↑ 1 2 3 Poetry Foundation.org website
- ↑ 1 2 Michael Longley. Selected Poems. London, Cape Poetry, 1998. ISBN 0224050354
- ↑ Michael Longley on the British Council website
- ↑ "Michael Longley wins € 5,000 poetry prize" , The Irish Times , 2012-09-08.
Bibliography
- Ten Poems (1965)
- Secret Marriages: Nine Short Poems (1968)
- No Continuing City (1969)
- Lares (1972)
- An Exploded View (1973)
- Fishing in the Sky: Love Poems (1975)
- Man Lying on a Wall (1976)
- The Echo Gate (1979)
- Patchwork (1981)
- Poems 1963-1983 (1985)
- Poems 1963-1980 (1981)
- Gorse Fires (1991)
- Baucis and Philemon: After Ovid (1993)
- Birds and Flowers: Poems (1994)
- Tuppeny Stung: Autobiographical Chapters (1994)
- The Ghost Orchid (1995)
- Ship of the Wind (1997)
- Broken Dishes (1998)
- Selected Poems (1998)
- The Weather in Japan (2000)
- Snow Water (2004)
- Collected Poems (2006)
- A Hundred Doors (2011)
In Russian
- Michael Longley Poems. Preface and translation from English by Gregory Starikovsky. // New Youth, No. 6 (51).
Literature
- Allen, Michael, ed. Options: The Poetry of Michael Longley , Éire-Ireland 10.4 (1975): pp. 129-35.
- Allen Randolph, Jody. "Michael Longley, February 2010." Close to the Next Moment: Interviews from a Changing Ireland. Manchester: Carcanet, 2010.
- Allen Randolph, Jody and Douglas Archibald, eds. Special Issue on Michael Longley . Colby Quarterly 39.3 (September 2003).
- Brearton, Fran. Reading Michael Longley . Bloodaxe, 2006.
- Clyde, Tom, ed. Special Issue on Michael Longley. Honest Ulsterman 110 (Summer 2001).
- Peacock, Alan J. and Kathleen Devine, eds. The Poetry of Michael Longley: Ulster Editions and Monographs 10 , Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe, 2000.
- Robertson, Robin, ed. Love Poet, Carpenter: Michael Longley at Seventy. London: Enitharmon Press, 2009.
- Russell, Richard Rankin. Poetry and Peace: Michael Longley, Seamus Heaney, and Northern Ireland. South Bend: Notre Dame UP, 2010.
Links
- Poems by Michael Longley in the translations of G. Starikovsky
- Poetry of the Belfast Group Period
- Profile of the poet on the British Council website
- Short biography on Wake Forest University Press website
- A Brief Description of Creativity
- Photographs of Michael Longley
- Video recording of a meeting with the poet at the University of Birmingham (March 20, 2014 )