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Michael Longley, CBE (born 27 July 1939) is a poet from Belfast in Northern Ireland. ==Life and career== Born in Belfast, Longley was educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution, and subsequently read Classics at Trinity College, Dublin, where he edited ''Icarus''. He was Professor of Poetry for Ireland from 2007 to 2010, a cross-border academic post set up in 1998, previously held by John Montague, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill and Paul Durcan. He was succeeded in 2010 by Harry Clifton.〔(BBC article. 7 September 2007. ''Longley new professor of poetry''. )〕 North American editions of Longley's work are published by Wake Forest University Press. His wife, Edna Longley, is a critic on modern Irish and British poetry.〔(Wake Forest University Press )〕 They have three children. An atheist, he describes himself as a "sentimental" disbeliever.〔(Michael Longley's reverence for the living and the dead is as evident as ever )〕 On 14 January 2014, Longley participated in the BBC Radio 3 series "The Essay - Letters to a Young Poet". Taking Rainer Maria Rilke's classic text, Letters to a Young Poet as inspiration, leading poets wrote a letter to a protege.〔http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03pdg5b/The_Essay_Letters_to_a_Young_Poet_Michael_Longley/〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Michael Longley」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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