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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... describes literature in Ireland as 'a continuous stream — sometimes muted, sometimes clearly audible — from the great period of the Revival, roughly coterminous with Yeats, to the present'. Mahon's work is an important part of that ...
... describes literature in Ireland as 'a continuous stream — sometimes muted, sometimes clearly audible — from the great period of the Revival, roughly coterminous with Yeats, to the present'. Mahon's work is an important part of that ...
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... describes spotting him on the primal Irish literary scene, Sandymount Strand, where he hails him as 'the poet Mahon. | Captain of my nation | Revolving in the sharpish breeze.'16 Though 'Grandfather' talks of 'the landscape of a ...
... describes spotting him on the primal Irish literary scene, Sandymount Strand, where he hails him as 'the poet Mahon. | Captain of my nation | Revolving in the sharpish breeze.'16 Though 'Grandfather' talks of 'the landscape of a ...
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... describes the North as 'un beau pays mal habité' and '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 ...
... describes the North as 'un beau pays mal habité' and '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 ...
Side 23
... describes the older literary generation of Clarke as they 'strolled down Dawson Street or Grafton St', apparently 'living the life of the mind'. Though they are 'introspective' in their round of the Dublin pubs, they are represented as ...
... describes the older literary generation of Clarke as they 'strolled down Dawson Street or Grafton St', apparently 'living the life of the mind'. Though they are 'introspective' in their round of the Dublin pubs, they are represented as ...
Side 25
... describes in 'Belfast v Dublin', saying that it was only much later that 'those two kinds of rhetoric were able to negotiate with each other and come together in a single voice'.20 The struggle reproduces the dialectical process ...
... describes in 'Belfast v Dublin', saying that it was only much later that 'those two kinds of rhetoric were able to negotiate with each other and come together in a single voice'.20 The struggle reproduces the dialectical process ...
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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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