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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... early on, tend to be packed with quotations, echoes, reworkings, translations, and allusions, including to themselves. In some sense adaptation to the present is the poet's big subject, and while this takes place at the lyric core of ...
... early on, tend to be packed with quotations, echoes, reworkings, translations, and allusions, including to themselves. In some sense adaptation to the present is the poet's big subject, and while this takes place at the lyric core of ...
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... situating it in the context of his life and time, I have organized my study chronologically. After reflecting on his childhood and early life in Belfast in the rest of the Introduction, 4 introduction: the poetics of home.
... situating it in the context of his life and time, I have organized my study chronologically. After reflecting on his childhood and early life in Belfast in the rest of the Introduction, 4 introduction: the poetics of home.
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Hugh Haughton. early life in Belfast in the rest of the Introduction, the following chapters are based around the sequence of his individual collections, treating poems in the order of their first appearance in book form, whether in a ...
Hugh Haughton. early life in Belfast in the rest of the Introduction, the following chapters are based around the sequence of his individual collections, treating poems in the order of their first appearance in book form, whether in a ...
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... early 1990s, and France and Italy where he has travelled. Wherever the poetry travels in space, however, Mahon is always a poet of time, trying to grasp the cultural moment of the present, and situating it and himself in relation to the ...
... early 1990s, and France and Italy where he has travelled. Wherever the poetry travels in space, however, Mahon is always a poet of time, trying to grasp the cultural moment of the present, and situating it and himself in relation to the ...
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... early life in Northern Ireland, his own accounts of his cultural formation, and his first encounters with poetry. 2 'One part of my mind must learn to know its place', Mahon says in the first poem in Collected Poems (CP 13). He goes on ...
... early life in Northern Ireland, his own accounts of his cultural formation, and his first encounters with poetry. 2 'One part of my mind must learn to know its place', Mahon says in the first poem in Collected Poems (CP 13). He goes on ...
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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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