Tuesday, June 26, 2007

In art as in life...

"Accommodation of difference is not the same as reconciliation of difference: the former is closer to Longley's (and Crane's) method: the latter to Heaney's (and to Herbert's)".

Fran Brearton, '"The privilege/ Of vertigo": Reading Michael Longley in the 1960s'. Colby Quarterly, 19.3 (2003): 211.