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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... London; the British Sound Archive; The British Newspaper Library, Colindale; the British Library at Boston Spa; The Linen Hall Library, Belfast; The University Library, Queens, Belfast; The Poetry Library, London; and University of York ...
... London; the British Sound Archive; The British Newspaper Library, Colindale; the British Library at Boston Spa; The Linen Hall Library, Belfast; The University Library, Queens, Belfast; The Poetry Library, London; and University of York ...
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... I look back with gratitude to many conversations among the bright lights of Dublin and London and among the harbour lights of Kinsale. H. H. York May 2007 Contents ix List of Illustrations Abbreviations x 21 56 90 acknowledgements vii.
... I look back with gratitude to many conversations among the bright lights of Dublin and London and among the harbour lights of Kinsale. H. H. York May 2007 Contents ix List of Illustrations Abbreviations x 21 56 90 acknowledgements vii.
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... London in mid-century. Likewise, John Hewitt, the impassioned advocate of the Ulster literary regionalism exemplified by 'The Bitter Gourd' and 'Once Alien here', was living in Coventry.35 Mahon records that the contemporary poetry ...
... London in mid-century. Likewise, John Hewitt, the impassioned advocate of the Ulster literary regionalism exemplified by 'The Bitter Gourd' and 'Once Alien here', was living in Coventry.35 Mahon records that the contemporary poetry ...
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... London Review of Books, 5 April 2001. See Jack Stillinger's Coleridge and Textual Instability: The Multiple Versions of the Major Poems (New York: Oxford University Press 1994) for a model of how to 9. approach such a publication ...
... London Review of Books, 5 April 2001. See Jack Stillinger's Coleridge and Textual Instability: The Multiple Versions of the Major Poems (New York: Oxford University Press 1994) for a model of how to 9. approach such a publication ...
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... London and Paris but preferring 'the unforced | pace of the quiet city under the Dublin mountains | where a broadsheet or a broadcast might still count' (CP 230). Another poem to his Trinity friend Eugene Lambe evokes the noisier city ...
... London and Paris but preferring 'the unforced | pace of the quiet city under the Dublin mountains | where a broadsheet or a broadcast might still count' (CP 230). Another poem to his Trinity friend Eugene Lambe evokes the noisier city ...
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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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