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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Side 8
... final anathema for the traditional Irish imagination'.10 No poet has a more developed sense of 'the cultural situation', and Mahon's decision to take his bearings from the city makes a symbolic contrast to Heaney's 'dream of loss and ...
... final anathema for the traditional Irish imagination'.10 No poet has a more developed sense of 'the cultural situation', and Mahon's decision to take his bearings from the city makes a symbolic contrast to Heaney's 'dream of loss and ...
Side 16
... final rhyme.' It's a formidable poem for a schoolboy, reflecting on the unresolved gap between the ordinary self (here got up as the 'homme moyen sensuel') and the self'stripped for authorship'. 'Stripped for authorship' suggests a ...
... final rhyme.' It's a formidable poem for a schoolboy, reflecting on the unresolved gap between the ordinary self (here got up as the 'homme moyen sensuel') and the self'stripped for authorship'. 'Stripped for authorship' suggests a ...
Side 27
... final gesture towards a 'tumbling shoulder in the crook of love', shows he still liked writing Dylan Thomas poems.25 'The Fall of Icarus' sails too close for comfort to what it calls the 'ironical sun', though in this case it is that of ...
... final gesture towards a 'tumbling shoulder in the crook of love', shows he still liked writing Dylan Thomas poems.25 'The Fall of Icarus' sails too close for comfort to what it calls the 'ironical sun', though in this case it is that of ...
Side 35
... final imperative —'One part of my mind must learn to know its place' — suggests a more mutually challenging relationship between 'mind' and 'place'. 'Glengormley' is another attempt to know his place. First published as 'Suburban Walk ...
... final imperative —'One part of my mind must learn to know its place' — suggests a more mutually challenging relationship between 'mind' and 'place'. 'Glengormley' is another attempt to know his place. First published as 'Suburban Walk ...
Side 39
... final stanza: The ironical, loving crush of roses against snow, Each fragile, solving ambiguity. So From the pneumonia of the ditch, from the ague Of the blind poet and the bombed-out town you bring The all-clear to the empty holes of ...
... final stanza: The ironical, loving crush of roses against snow, Each fragile, solving ambiguity. So From the pneumonia of the ditch, from the ague Of the blind poet and the bombed-out town you bring The all-clear to the empty holes of ...
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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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