Michael Longley's father: memory, mourning and history
Michael Longley's father: memory, mourning and history
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.
memory, mourning, history, father, son, elegy, family, consolation
99-108
Sloan, Barry
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17 March 2012
Sloan, Barry
4192a9d4-0959-4e09-b22a-e98c0436da24
Sloan, Barry
(2012)
Michael Longley's father: memory, mourning and history.
Estudios Irlandese, 7, .
Abstract
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.
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Published date: 17 March 2012
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memory, mourning, history, father, son, elegy, family, consolation
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