The Poetry of Derek MahonDerek 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 Time of Exile: The Hunt by Night and Antarctica 7. Poet in New York: The Hudson Letter 8. The Yellow Book and the Fin de Siècle 9. A New Wave: Harbour Lights 125 153 219 265 316 Select Bibliography Inventory of Poems Index 373 383 ...
The Time of Exile: The Hunt by Night and Antarctica 7. Poet in New York: The Hudson Letter 8. The Yellow Book and the Fin de Siècle 9. A New Wave: Harbour Lights 125 153 219 265 316 Select Bibliography Inventory of Poems Index 373 383 ...
Side 1
... starting with Night-Crossing (1968) and ending with Harbour Lights (2005). The titles of the two books suggest sea-journeys, departure and arrival, and Mahon is a poet much preoccupied by 'home' and travel, exile and return, ...
... starting with Night-Crossing (1968) and ending with Harbour Lights (2005). The titles of the two books suggest sea-journeys, departure and arrival, and Mahon is a poet much preoccupied by 'home' and travel, exile and return, ...
Side 2
... taking their bearings from Mahon, whose work engages with questions of longing and belonging, aesthetics and politics, home and exile, poetry and belief, culture and environment, with a wit and at a pitch unmatched in modern poetry.
... taking their bearings from Mahon, whose work engages with questions of longing and belonging, aesthetics and politics, home and exile, poetry and belief, culture and environment, with a wit and at a pitch unmatched in modern poetry.
Side 30
... prose.33 Beginning with a portrait of the nightmare-haunted artist in 'literary leisure' in Grasmere, the poem follows De Quincey back through memory into his formative experiences of love and exile in the streets of the metropolis.
... prose.33 Beginning with a portrait of the nightmare-haunted artist in 'literary leisure' in Grasmere, the poem follows De Quincey back through memory into his formative experiences of love and exile in the streets of the metropolis.
Side 31
They distil from Beckett and Camus an acute sense of estrangement from the natural order, a note of ontological exile. 'No doubt the creation was something like this— | A cold day breaking on silent stones,' the first of them begins in ...
They distil from Beckett and Camus an acute sense of estrangement from the natural order, a note of ontological exile. 'No doubt the creation was something like this— | A cold day breaking on silent stones,' the first of them begins in ...
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| 21 | |
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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Bibliografisk informasjon
| Tittel | The Poetry of Derek Mahon |
| Forfatter | Hugh Haughton |
| Utgiver | OUP Oxford, 2010 |
| ISBN | 0191615587, 9780191615580 |
| Lengde | 416 sider |
| Eksporter sitat | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |