Edna Longley (born 1940) is an Irish literary critic and cultural commentator specialising in modern Irish and British poetry.
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.
I think that literature quite often emerges from areas where there has been a lack of articulation, like women's writing.
Obviously all writers, all artists, have their own internal critics; as they write they are being self-critical.
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