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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... dream of fire | And sword upon parched veldt and fields of rain-swept gorse.' The poem transforms the neat Protestant working-class Belfast of his childhood, offering 'an oblique light on the trite', as he says at the opening, but also ...
... dream of fire | And sword upon parched veldt and fields of rain-swept gorse.' The poem transforms the neat Protestant working-class Belfast of his childhood, offering 'an oblique light on the trite', as he says at the opening, but also ...
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Hugh Haughton. a symbolic contrast to Heaney's 'dream of loss and origins' in rural Derry. Though he has never written a childhood memoir, like so many of his contemporaries, his interviews offer a remarkably consistent picture of his ...
Hugh Haughton. a symbolic contrast to Heaney's 'dream of loss and origins' in rural Derry. Though he has never written a childhood memoir, like so many of his contemporaries, his interviews offer a remarkably consistent picture of his ...
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... dream of place ('Towards sleep I came | Upon the place again, | Its muted sea and tame |Eddying wind'). It too insists on the distance between the 'bird sanctuary', where the birds collect ('Gannet, puffin and kittiwake'), and 'the city ...
... dream of place ('Towards sleep I came | Upon the place again, | Its muted sea and tame |Eddying wind'). It too insists on the distance between the 'bird sanctuary', where the birds collect ('Gannet, puffin and kittiwake'), and 'the city ...
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... dream girls 'Left soaking at the end of bars, | Pasted in dying calendars | Or locked in clocks.' 'De Quincey at Grasmere'takes for its subject another dreamer, the English poète maudit Thomas De Quincey, hero of Baudelaire's Paradis ...
... dream girls 'Left soaking at the end of bars, | Pasted in dying calendars | Or locked in clocks.' 'De Quincey at Grasmere'takes for its subject another dreamer, the English poète maudit Thomas De Quincey, hero of Baudelaire's Paradis ...
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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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