The Poetry of Derek MahonOUP Oxford, 21. okt. 2010 - 416 sider Derek Mahon is one of the leading poets of his time, both in Ireland and beyond, famously offering a perspective that is displaced from as much as grounded in his native country. From prodigious beginnings to prolific maturity, he has been, through thick and thin, through troubled times and other, a writer profoundly committed to the art of poetry and the craft of making verse. He has also been no-less a committed reviser of his work, believing the poem to be more than a record in verse, but a work of art never finished. This virtuoso study by Hugh Haughton provides the most comprehensive account imaginable of Mahon's oeuvre. Haughton's brilliant writing always serves and illuminates the poetry, yielding extraordinary insights on almost every page. The poetry, its revisions and reception, are the subject here, but so thorough is the approach that what is offered also amounts indirectly to an intellectual biography of the poet and with it an account of Northern Irish poetry vital to our understanding of the times. |
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Side vi
... John Minihan, Shane Alcobia-Murphy, Paul Muldoon, Laura Nice, Anthony O'Carroll, Bernard O'Donoghue, Denis O'Driscoll, Pat Palmer, Tom Paulin, Leslie Pearson, Lionel Pilkington, Letitia Pollard, John David Rhodes, Jon Stalworthy, Helen ...
... John Minihan, Shane Alcobia-Murphy, Paul Muldoon, Laura Nice, Anthony O'Carroll, Bernard O'Donoghue, Denis O'Driscoll, Pat Palmer, Tom Paulin, Leslie Pearson, Lionel Pilkington, Letitia Pollard, John David Rhodes, Jon Stalworthy, Helen ...
Side vii
... John Minihan for the cover and other photos. I owe a particular debt of gratitude to Tom Chandler for expert copy-editing, Andrew Hawkey for eagle-eyed proof-reading, and to Michael Kinsella and Nicole Devarenne, who read an earlier ...
... John Minihan for the cover and other photos. I owe a particular debt of gratitude to Tom Chandler for expert copy-editing, Andrew Hawkey for eagle-eyed proof-reading, and to Michael Kinsella and Nicole Devarenne, who read an earlier ...
Side ix
... John Minihan) Frontispiece: Derek Mahon, aged 64 (© John Minihan) 1. Derek Mahon, aged 8 (© Derek Mahon) 2. Group photo of Northern Irish Poets: Michael Longley, Derek Mahon, John Hewitt and Seamus Heaney (courtesy The Glens of Antrim ...
... John Minihan) Frontispiece: Derek Mahon, aged 64 (© John Minihan) 1. Derek Mahon, aged 8 (© Derek Mahon) 2. Group photo of Northern Irish Poets: Michael Longley, Derek Mahon, John Hewitt and Seamus Heaney (courtesy The Glens of Antrim ...
Side 2
... John Montague has dubbed him 'a living classic'and Michael Longley called him 'our bravest and most stylish wielder of the singing line'. The novelist John Banville calls 'A Disused Shed in Co Wexford' 'the best single poem written in ...
... John Montague has dubbed him 'a living classic'and Michael Longley called him 'our bravest and most stylish wielder of the singing line'. The novelist John Banville calls 'A Disused Shed in Co Wexford' 'the best single poem written in ...
Side 6
... John Redmond—have seen these later mixedmode polyphonic works as betrayals of the taut, well-wrought stanzaic poetry of earlier books like The Snow Party. Many others deplore his self-revisions. They view Mahon's career, like Auden's ...
... John Redmond—have seen these later mixedmode polyphonic works as betrayals of the taut, well-wrought stanzaic poetry of earlier books like The Snow Party. Many others deplore his self-revisions. They view Mahon's career, like Auden's ...
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Lives | 56 |
The Snow Party | 90 |
The Sea in Winter | 125 |
The Hunt by Night and Antarctica | 153 |
The Hudson Letter | 219 |
8 The Yellow Book and the Fin de Siècle | 265 |
Harbour Lights | 316 |
Select Bibliography | 373 |
Inventory of Poems | 383 |
Index | 391 |
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