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'Altering the past': Northern Irish poetry and modern canons.
From: Yearbook of English Studies
Date: 20050101
Author:Longley, Edna
Altering the past' is a semi-quotation from T. S. Eliot's 'Tradition and the Individual Talent': With respect to the formal(ist) principles embraced in the 1960s by the Northern Irish poets Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon, and Michael Longley, Edna Longley asks whether this aesthetic, and its subsequent influence, might retrospectively modify canons of modern poetry. Starting with a comparison between Eliot's view of tradition and that of W. B. Yeats, Longley traces the way in which the Yeatsian view of tradition has been redefined by various Northern Irish poets. She also examines certain ...
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