Michael Longley's father: memory, mourning and history
Sloan, Barry (2012) Michael Longley's father: memory, mourning and history. Estudios Irlandese, (7), 99-108.
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Michael Longley's father has been a recurring presence in the poet's work from his earliest to his most recent collection. The article examines the exceptional strength of that bond reflected in the varying and changing ways in which the poet has responded to it - memorising and mourning his loss; discovering through his father's First World War stories a means of memorialising loss of life in contemporary conflicts and a way of facing the history of the 20th century; confronting his own ageing and mortality; and marking the specific, but also representative, generational history of his family.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| ISSNs: | 1699-311X (electronic) |
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| Keywords: | memory, mourning, history, father, son, elegy, family, consolation |
| Subjects: | P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics |
| Divisions: | University Structure - Pre August 2011 > School of Humanities Faculty of Humanities > English |
| Item ID: | 199131 |
| Date Deposited: | 12 Oct 2011 13:34 |
| Last Modified: | 17 Apr 2012 15:27 |
| Contributors: | Sloan, Barry (Author) |
| Date: | 17 March 2012 |
| Status: | Published |
| URI: | http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/199131 |
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