Edna Longley Born : 1940 Browse All Authors Top 3 quotes by Edna Longley Obviously all writers, all artists, have their own internal critics; as they write they are being self-critical. Edna Longley artist self writing I think that literature quite often emerges from areas where there has been a lack of articulation, like women's writing. Edna Longley literature writing thinking Poetry is often very critical of the culture from which it emerges. Quite often literary critics of a nationalist bent talk up the national culture, in a way that the literary texts don't. Poetry can bring out areas of denial and repression. Edna Longley denial culture way
