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Michael Longley: The Centaurs

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The Centaurs

No Continuing City: Poems 1963-1968,  London: Macmillan, 1969

20-21

 

Michael Longley

  • About the poet
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  • Poems with Classical referents
    • A Bed of Leaves
    • A Flowering
    • A Linen Handkerchief
    • A Poppy
    • A Working Holiday
    • According to Pythagoras
    • After Horace
    • Akrotin
    • Altera Cithera
    • An Image from Propertius
    • Anticleia
    • Argos
    • Ars Poetica
    • Baucis and Philemon
    • Cavafy's Desire
    • Ceasefire
    • Circe
    • Corinna
    • Damiana
    • Epithalamion
    • Eurycleia
    • Heartsease
    • Homecoming
    • Homer's Octopus
    • In the Iliad
    • Interview
    • Ivory and Water
    • Laertes
    • Lares
    • Mercury
    • Metamorphoses
    • Narcissus
    • Nausicaa
    • Odyssey
    • Old Soldiers
    • Paper Boats
    • Peace: After Tibullus
    • Perdix
    • Persephone
    • Phemios and Medon
    • Phoenix
    • Praxille
    • Remembering the Poets
    • Sleep & Death
    • Spiderwoman
    • Sulpicia
    • The Beech Tree
    • The Bullet Hole
    • The Butchers
    • The Camp-Fires
    • The Centaurs
    • The Evening Star
    • The Garden
    • The Group
    • The Helmet
    • The Horses
    • The Oar
    • The Parody
    • The Parting
    • The Snow Leopard
    • The Vision of Theoclymenus
    • To Three Irish Poets
    • Tree House
    • War & Peace
  • Selected bibliography
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