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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... cultural present. In this study I take the updated versions as my main reference points, but have felt free to set them against earlier texts, as one would do with Coleridge or Auden, great poets for whom vision and revision are as ...
... cultural present. In this study I take the updated versions as my main reference points, but have felt free to set them against earlier texts, as one would do with Coleridge or Auden, great poets for whom vision and revision are as ...
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... cultural transformation in Ireland and beyond. In the first place, there was the eruption of violence in the wake of the Civil Rights marches in Northern Ireland in 1969, which inaugurated an era of political bloodshed and civil ...
... cultural transformation in Ireland and beyond. In the first place, there was the eruption of violence in the wake of the Civil Rights marches in Northern Ireland in 1969, which inaugurated an era of political bloodshed and civil ...
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... cultural change, caught up in the larger processes of globalization and environmental crisis. He is always a poet of the daily, the ordinary, the personally numinous, but also of the bigger picture. As he wrote of J. G. Farrell, he is a ...
... cultural change, caught up in the larger processes of globalization and environmental crisis. He is always a poet of the daily, the ordinary, the personally numinous, but also of the bigger picture. As he wrote of J. G. Farrell, he is a ...
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... cultural situation inasmuch as they're the final anathema for the traditional Irish imagination'.10 No poet has a more developed sense of 'the cultural situation', and Mahon's decision to take his bearings from the city makes a symbolic ...
... cultural situation inasmuch as they're the final anathema for the traditional Irish imagination'.10 No poet has a more developed sense of 'the cultural situation', and Mahon's decision to take his bearings from the city makes a symbolic ...
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... cultural geography of home, Mahon constructs a counter-Wordsworthian epiphany, in which Cave Hill, the dominant feature of his home landscape, becomes a place to view worlds elsewhere. 3 In The Hudson Letter Mahon described himself as a ...
... cultural geography of home, Mahon constructs a counter-Wordsworthian epiphany, in which Cave Hill, the dominant feature of his home landscape, becomes a place to view worlds elsewhere. 3 In The Hudson Letter Mahon described himself as a ...
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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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