Edna Longley
Biography
Edna Longley is professor emerita at Queen’s University Belfast. Her books include Louis MacNeice, Poetry and Posterity, Yeats and Modern Poetry and Under the Same Moon: Edward Thomas and the English Lyric. She is the editor of Edward Thomas: The Annotated Collected Poems and Edward Thomas: Selected Writings on Poetry. She is a member of the Royal Irish Academy and a fellow of the British Academy.
Articles by Edna Longley
2026
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Poetry
When More is Less
This colossal volume of Heaney’s poems ‘almost disguises the fact that he is a poet by entombing his lyric in a mass of annotation, exegesis…