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 vii
... North Antrim coast and Coleraine Triangle; to Frank Ormsby for showing me round Inst and providing copies of School News; to Tom Weaver for his series of photographs of Mahon's Greenwich Village; and to John Minihan for the cover and ...
... North Antrim coast and Coleraine Triangle; to Frank Ormsby for showing me round Inst and providing copies of School News; to Tom Weaver for his series of photographs of Mahon's Greenwich Village; and to John Minihan for the cover and ...
Side 2
... North and South, modernist and traditionalist, cosmopolitan and parochial. Over the years his critical essays and reviews, sampled in Journalism (1996), show him to be a well-travelled, eclectic writer, and an internationally as well as ...
... North and South, modernist and traditionalist, cosmopolitan and parochial. Over the years his critical essays and reviews, sampled in Journalism (1996), show him to be a well-travelled, eclectic writer, and an internationally as well as ...
Side 6
... history, not only in relation to Ireland, in the manner of Heaney in North, Montague in The Rough Field or Kinsella in Nightwalker, but in relation to the condition of modernity. If he is a 6 introduction: the poetics of home.
... history, not only in relation to Ireland, in the manner of Heaney in North, Montague in The Rough Field or Kinsella in Nightwalker, but in relation to the condition of modernity. If he is a 6 introduction: the poetics of home.
Side 7
... North and South, the modern USA, and Europe, as well as an intimate record of perplexed cultural identity as he travels from place to place, text to text, possessed of an exacerbated and exasperated sense of 'home' and homelessness in ...
... North and South, the modern USA, and Europe, as well as an intimate record of perplexed cultural identity as he travels from place to place, text to text, possessed of an exacerbated and exasperated sense of 'home' and homelessness in ...
Side 10
... North Belfast. The house had a privet hedge, like those in 'Glengormley', and there was a coal-shed in the back garden where he kept his bike. His Paris Review interview gives a closer view of the world of 'Courtyards'. He finds it ...
... North Belfast. The house had a privet hedge, like those in 'Glengormley', and there was a coal-shed in the back garden where he kept his bike. His Paris Review interview gives a closer view of the world of 'Courtyards'. He finds it ...
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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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