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 edna longley And this you can see is the bolt. The purpose of this Isto open the breech, as you see. We can slide it Rapidly ...

war pastorals  I should want nothing more...Havemany gone From here?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘Many lost?’ ‘Yes, a good few. Only two teams wo ...

 edna longley II Interrupted Georgics ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• ...

war pastorals  community, folklore, language, and literature—might survive or metamorphose inthe conjoined contexts of war an ...

 edna longley which ‘A mighty fountain momently was forced’, and also the sacred river’s ‘mazy motion’.^23 Thomasblends these ...

war pastorals  and poplars about the houses, at the purple-headed wood-betony.’^27 Ina mostly dismissive essay on ‘war poetry ...

 edna longley by ‘First March’, in which ordinary ‘home-talk’ fails to assuage the mind’s ‘circling greyness’.^37 Butthe poem ...

war pastorals  round the minute neighbouring points of home’. ‘Home’ exemplifies this idea; ‘‘‘Home’’ ’ (March 1916), the wor ...

 edna longley Blunden, who virtually terms himself a war pastoralist in the last phrase of his memoirUndertonesof War(‘a harm ...

war pastorals  III Marginal Eclogues •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• ...

 edna longley and leading to inevitable murder’. He particularly dreaded that ‘Ireland...(under theinfluence of its lunatic f ...

war pastorals  of sound’. By translating Golden Age fertility into great-souled creativity, Yeats symbolicallyheals his (and ...

 edna longley To go there at all was to create the artificial landscape appropriate to eclogue. Yetdistance from mainland Eur ...

war pastorals  poets (‘Ryan’ and ‘Craven’) conversing with ‘Grettir Asmundson’, a ghost from thesagas. Here (as in ‘Prayer’) ...

 edna longley Anne Shepard’ represents ‘The obscure but powerful ethics of Going North’ as a pilgrimageto ‘mortify|Our blowsy ...

war pastorals  IV APastoralPeace? ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• ...

 edna longley till the whole tarnished map is stained and torn, notto be read as pastoral again.^85 ‘Not to be read as pastor ...

war pastorals  maxed-out, multilayered whitethorns, affording us a broader, deeper shade thanwe ever decently hoped to know s ...

 edna longley Perhaps to balance ‘Whitethorns’, Muldoon’s ‘At the Sign of the Black Horse’ representshistory as still in dang ...

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