collected poems de longley michael (61 résultats)

Paperback. Etat : Very Good. Michael Longley has been called 'one of the finest lyric poets of our time'. In assembling the work of forty years, his Collected Poems displays a brilliantly sustained achievement whose depth, beauty and wit can now be fully appreciated. Longley's poetry combines intense concentration with remarkable variety. The formal and thematic range laid down in No Continuing City (1969) has undergone a series of rich metamorphoses up to Snow Water (2004), and the two poems included here as an epilogue. Longley's genres span love poetry, war poetry, nature poetry, elegies, satires, verse epistles, poems that reflect on art and the art of poetry. He has extended the capacity of the lyric to absorb dark matter: the Great War, the Holocaust, the Northern Irish 'Troubles'. His poetic landscape intermingles Belfast (where he lives), western Ireland, Italy, Japan and Homeric Greece. Longley's superb translations from classical poets (such as 'Ceasefire', which greets the IRA ceasefire in terms of the Iliad) speak to contemporary issues while activating the deepest sources of European poetry. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Etat : New.

Etat : Very Good. Michael Longley has been called "one of the finest lyric poets of our time." His Collected Poems, the work of forty years, displays a brilliantly sustained achievement, whose depth, beauty and wit can now be fully appreciated. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 146 x 31. Weight in Grams: 562. E. scarce. From the library of Michael Viney. Fine in fine dust wrapper. DW showing light shelf wear & age, sunned to spine. Lightly toned, a little spotting on top edges, text is crisp and clear, remains a fine copy. 2006. hardcover. First edition copy. . . .

SIGNED & INSCRIBED BY EDITOR TO VINCENT O'SULLIVAN. 8vo, pp. [20] + 346; illus. light card covers; VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to covers; light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems; light to moderate tanning & soiling to pg edges).

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 346 pages, 8vo. SIGNED by the author Michael Longley on title page. Shelfwear to DJ: scuffing along edges and covers, some light smudges on covers, a few small tears along edges. Tight binding, no marks. Volume is in Very Good condition. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. First edition, signed issue. Bound in full leather with spine gilt. Fine in fine slipcase. Limited to 200 numbered copies Signed by Michael Longley. Nicely printed and bound by William Clowes, Ltd.

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. Very good condition with some wear along spine edge, minor marks.

Softcover. Etat : Fine. First edition. Square octavo. [32]pp. Stapled red pictorial wrappers printed in black. Illustrated with photographic reproductions of the contributors. Small stain inside front cover else a just about fine copy. Housed in a custom green cloth clamshell case titled in gilt. Signed by Seamus Heaney, Longley, and on the photographic frontispiece. The poets each contribute nine poems and Hammond contributes nine songs. Heaney contributes three poems that are first appearances and not previously collected elsewhere: "Requiem for the Croppies," Elegy for a Still-Born Child," and "Last Look." Very scarce.

Etat : V.G. First. Signed by all with humorous comments - Quarto p.p. 32. Photographs of three authors, separately and together. Stiff pictorial wrappers. Extremely rare copy signed by the three contributors with their amusing comments in bubble format. The three each contributed nine pieces, poems from the two poets and songs from the singer. Five of Heaney's poems were previously unpublished and three of these were included in his book 'Door into the Dark', 1969. In May 1968 the Arts Council invited Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley and David Hammond to visit a number of towns in Northern Ireland with a programme which, genuflecting to tradition, toured under the title 'Room to Rhyme'. To find a common denominator the two poets and the ballad collector sought a number of themes commonly treated by each in song and verse. Since the anthology and the comparisons to be made within each theme (symbolized on the front cover by Ralph Dobson) retain interest and vitality apart from the tour, the Council decided to publish this booklet in the hope that it will give greater currency to the vision and verse of two contemporary Irish writers and increase familiarity with the oral tradition to which the bulk of the ballads belong" (preface).

First edition, first impression, of this early collection grouping poems by Heaney and Longley, alongside folk ballads collected by David Hammond. In addition to four selections from Death of a Naturalist (1966), including the famous "Digging", Room to Rhyme entails the first book appearance of five other Heaney poems. Uncommon, with ten copies listed on WorldCat. Brandes & Durkan B4. Quarto. Photographic portraits and woodcut illustrations in the text. Original printed wrappers. Light soiling to rear cover and in a couple of minor instances to contents, else a very good copy.