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 10
... gives a closer view of the world of 'Courtyards'. He finds it important that he was 'an only child whose best friends were the objects' in their 'quiet house'. His father was 'usually out at work' while his mother was 'house-proud in ...
... gives a closer view of the world of 'Courtyards'. He finds it important that he was 'an only child whose best friends were the objects' in their 'quiet house'. His father was 'usually out at work' while his mother was 'house-proud in ...
Side 12
... give his poetry 'a texture which is absent from the work of his Catholic contemporaries', and the singing cadence, stanzaic layout, and intransigent time-sense to be found in hymns left their mark.25 After Skegoneil primary school ...
... give his poetry 'a texture which is absent from the work of his Catholic contemporaries', and the singing cadence, stanzaic layout, and intransigent time-sense to be found in hymns left their mark.25 After Skegoneil primary school ...
Side 15
... gives the waters breath | And spins the dry autumnal life | Into the feathered sky | Has fused the substance of my year | Into a mould that shall endure | When all my blood-beats die.'The 'power' that gives it 'substance'and 'breath ...
... gives the waters breath | And spins the dry autumnal life | Into the feathered sky | Has fused the substance of my year | Into a mould that shall endure | When all my blood-beats die.'The 'power' that gives it 'substance'and 'breath ...
Side 16
... gives us Mahon's first authenticated literary allusion ('Proust burned for such perfection out of sight'), and ... give the author enough of his diurnal identity. The poem attempts to map the painful'gulf' between his identity as poet ...
... gives us Mahon's first authenticated literary allusion ('Proust burned for such perfection out of sight'), and ... give the author enough of his diurnal identity. The poem attempts to map the painful'gulf' between his identity as poet ...
Side 27
... with mock-sublimity, that 'we are slowly learning from meteors like her' that 'when an immovable body meets an ir- | Resistible force, something has got to give.'29 The end plays cheekily with - forging an identity: NIGHT CROSSING 27.
... with mock-sublimity, that 'we are slowly learning from meteors like her' that 'when an immovable body meets an ir- | Resistible force, something has got to give.'29 The end plays cheekily with - forging an identity: NIGHT CROSSING 27.
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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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