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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... '. The novelist John Banville calls 'A Disused Shed in Co Wexford' 'the best single poem written in Ireland since the death of Yeats' and his work has had a visible influence on contemporaries 2 introduction: the poetics of home.
... '. The novelist John Banville calls 'A Disused Shed in Co Wexford' 'the best single poem written in Ireland since the death of Yeats' and his work has had a visible influence on contemporaries 2 introduction: the poetics of home.
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... 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 'struck down | in ...
... 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 'struck down | in ...
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... Death and the Sun' traces parallels between the career of Camus, with his roots in French colonial Algeria and his own, with its backdrop of 'the cold Ulster night' in British Northern Ireland.45 The poem evokes the day of Camus's death ...
... Death and the Sun' traces parallels between the career of Camus, with his roots in French colonial Algeria and his own, with its backdrop of 'the cold Ulster night' in British Northern Ireland.45 The poem evokes the day of Camus's death ...
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... Death and the Sun', A 35–7. 45. SBMIP 12. 46. He quotes this aphorism by 'the Latin poet Raymond Chandler' in William Scammell, 'Derek Mahon Interviewed', Poetry Review, 81.2 (Summer 1991). Gaston Bachelard, La Poétique de l'Espace ...
... Death and the Sun', A 35–7. 45. SBMIP 12. 46. He quotes this aphorism by 'the Latin poet Raymond Chandler' in William Scammell, 'Derek Mahon Interviewed', Poetry Review, 81.2 (Summer 1991). Gaston Bachelard, La Poétique de l'Espace ...
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... death'.28 The poet hopes he won't be thrown in a ditch through 'dangerous driving', but is in more danger of driving the imagery to death as he tries to negotiate the accepted iconography of an 'evil queen', 'evil succubus', and ...
... death'.28 The poet hopes he won't be thrown in a ditch through 'dangerous driving', but is in more danger of driving the imagery to death as he tries to negotiate the accepted iconography of an 'evil queen', 'evil succubus', 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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