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 ix
... Ulster Museum, Belfast. Photograph reproduced with the kind permission of the Trustees of the National Museums Northern Ireland. 157 182 186 272 328 Abbreviations References to poems in the text are to Derek List of Illustrations.
... Ulster Museum, Belfast. Photograph reproduced with the kind permission of the Trustees of the National Museums Northern Ireland. 157 182 186 272 328 Abbreviations References to poems in the text are to Derek List of Illustrations.
Side 1
... Ulster (1975) and provided the title for Frank Ormsby's anthology, A Rage for Order: Poetry of the Northern Ireland Troubles (1992). Though he wrote that 'One part of my mind must learn to know its place', he has always been sceptical ...
... Ulster (1975) and provided the title for Frank Ormsby's anthology, A Rage for Order: Poetry of the Northern Ireland Troubles (1992). Though he wrote that 'One part of my mind must learn to know its place', he has always been sceptical ...
Side 5
... Ulster'. Texts change too. The poem 'Lives' for example, spoke in most of its incarnations of a figure 'struck down | In Tucson by an electric shock'. This is changed in Collected Poems to 'struck down | in Denver', not presumably for ...
... Ulster'. Texts change too. The poem 'Lives' for example, spoke in most of its incarnations of a figure 'struck down | In Tucson by an electric shock'. This is changed in Collected Poems to 'struck down | in Denver', not presumably for ...
Side 11
... Ulster Covenant of 1912 (the year the Titanic sank), and the birth of British 'Northern Ireland' in 1921. 'After the Titanic' (CP 30) turns the fate of Belfast's most famous product into a parable of obsolescence and the vanity of human ...
... Ulster Covenant of 1912 (the year the Titanic sank), and the birth of British 'Northern Ireland' in 1921. 'After the Titanic' (CP 30) turns the fate of Belfast's most famous product into a parable of obsolescence and the vanity of human ...
Side 12
... Ulster Protestant ... from Co Down' (CP 218), and to some extent his later intellectual life can be seen as an attempt to recover from—and resist—his early experience of life in Belfast. The mobility, intellectual scepticism, and ...
... Ulster Protestant ... from Co Down' (CP 218), and to some extent his later intellectual life can be seen as an attempt to recover from—and resist—his early experience of life in Belfast. The mobility, intellectual scepticism, and ...
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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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