Living Stream: Literature and Revisionism in Ireland

by Edna Longley

Book Overview

Edna Longley's second collection of essays for Bloodaxe investigates the links between Irish literature (especially contemporary poetry), Irish culture and Irish politics. The Living Stream takes its title from Yeats's poem 'Easter 1916' 'Hearts with one purpose alone/ Through summer and winter seem/ Enchanted to a stone/ To trouble the living stream...' By questioning the fixed purposes of both nationalism and unionism, literature has helped...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1852242175
• ISBN13: 9781852242176
• Release Date: July 1994
• Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"