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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... Northern Irish writing and modern poetry more generally. Haughton's brilliant writing always serves and illuminates the poetry, yielding extraordinary insights on almost every page. The poetry, its revisions and reception, are its ...
... Northern Irish writing and modern poetry more generally. Haughton's brilliant writing always serves and illuminates the poetry, yielding extraordinary insights on almost every page. The poetry, its revisions and reception, are its ...
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... Northern Ireland; to Paul Keegan for subtle goading and guiding over the years; to Adam Phillips and Hermione Lee for moral and intellectual support; to my perceptive anonymous readers at Oxford University Press for their comments on ...
... Northern Ireland; to Paul Keegan for subtle goading and guiding over the years; to Adam Phillips and Hermione Lee for moral and intellectual support; to my perceptive anonymous readers at Oxford University Press for their comments on ...
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... Northern Irish Poets: Michael Longley, Derek Mahon, John Hewitt and Seamus Heaney (courtesy The Glens of Antrim Historical Society) 3. Derek Mahon, aged 30 (courtesy Derek Mahon) 4. Pieter De Hooch, The Courtyard of a House in Delft ...
... Northern Irish Poets: Michael Longley, Derek Mahon, John Hewitt and Seamus Heaney (courtesy The Glens of Antrim Historical Society) 3. Derek Mahon, aged 30 (courtesy Derek Mahon) 4. Pieter De Hooch, The Courtyard of a House in Delft ...
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... Northern Ireland, whose arrival coincided with the outbreak of the Troubles. He figured in Terence Brown's pioneering study of their work, Northern Voices: Poets from Ulster (1975) and provided the title for Frank Ormsby's anthology, A ...
... Northern Ireland, whose arrival coincided with the outbreak of the Troubles. He figured in Terence Brown's pioneering study of their work, Northern Voices: Poets from Ulster (1975) and provided the title for Frank Ormsby's anthology, A ...
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... Northern Ireland in 1969, which inaugurated an era of political bloodshed and civil conflict in his native province. Though Mahon rarely addresses this directly, as Heaney does, it impinges intimately on the estranged poetry of The Snow ...
... Northern Ireland in 1969, which inaugurated an era of political bloodshed and civil conflict in his native province. Though Mahon rarely addresses this directly, as Heaney does, it impinges intimately on the estranged poetry of The Snow ...
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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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