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 5
... Artist' and 'Death and the Sun' 'Camus in 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 ...
... Artist' and 'Death and the Sun' 'Camus in 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 ...
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... artists and places. Other poems offer staged glimpses of his early life. 'Autobiographies' (CP 91–4) recalls his coming to consciousness in Belfast (identified as 'The Home Front'), where he was born after the Blitz of spring 1941. It ...
... artists and places. Other poems offer staged glimpses of his early life. 'Autobiographies' (CP 91–4) recalls his coming to consciousness in Belfast (identified as 'The Home Front'), where he was born after the Blitz of spring 1941. It ...
Side 29
... artists ('Marilyn Monroe' and 'De Quincey in Later Life', CP 20), actual places ('Day trip to Donegal', CP 25), and lovers (including the now discarded 'Girls in their Seasons'and 'Lovers wake to difference').31 'Day Trip to Donegal' is ...
... artists ('Marilyn Monroe' and 'De Quincey in Later Life', CP 20), actual places ('Day trip to Donegal', CP 25), and lovers (including the now discarded 'Girls in their Seasons'and 'Lovers wake to difference').31 'Day Trip to Donegal' is ...
Side 30
... artist in 'literary leisure' in Grasmere, the poem follows De Quincey back through memory into his formative experiences of love and exile in the streets of the metropolis. He hears 'in the whispering-gallery of his soul': His own small ...
... artist in 'literary leisure' in Grasmere, the poem follows De Quincey back through memory into his formative experiences of love and exile in the streets of the metropolis. He hears 'in the whispering-gallery of his soul': His own small ...
Side 34
... artist must be 'a rooted man, must carry the native tang of his idiom like the native dust on his sleeve' and 'have a native place, pinpointed on a map'. According to Hewitt, a poet should feel 'he belongs to a recognisable focus in ...
... artist must be 'a rooted man, must carry the native tang of his idiom like the native dust on his sleeve' and 'have a native place, pinpointed on a map'. According to Hewitt, a poet should feel 'he belongs to a recognisable focus in ...
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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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