Mochael Longley: Peace: After Tibullus

Poem Title

Original Publication

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Peace: After Tibullus

The Echo Gate: Poems 1975-79, Basingstoke: Secker & Warburg, 1979

134-136

Length / Form 7 x 10-line stanzas; 

Allusion to Classical figure Elegy 1.10

Relationship to Classical text  A translation / adaptation

Comment Some language relates poem to 20th-century e.g. 'arms deal', 'barricades or ghettos', 'battered wife'.