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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Group photo of Northern Irish Poets: Michael Longley, Derek Mahon, John Hewitt and Seamus Heaney (courtesy The Glens of Antrim Historical Society) 3. Derek Mahon, aged 30 (courtesy Derek Mahon) 4. Pieter De Hooch, The Courtyard of a ...
Group photo of Northern Irish Poets: Michael Longley, Derek Mahon, John Hewitt and Seamus Heaney (courtesy The Glens of Antrim Historical Society) 3. Derek Mahon, aged 30 (courtesy Derek Mahon) 4. Pieter De Hooch, The Courtyard of a ...
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It also, however, takes its bearings from a much larger sense of historical crisis embodied philosophically by the speakers in 'Lives' and 'Ovid in Tomis', or more politically in his various texts about the modern metropolis, ...
It also, however, takes its bearings from a much larger sense of historical crisis embodied philosophically by the speakers in 'Lives' and 'Ovid in Tomis', or more politically in his various texts about the modern metropolis, ...
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Mahon has been read—and rightly—as a poet of place—but he is also, despite his fi re-king's desire to be 'through with history'—a poet with a strongly developed 'historical sense' of the kind Eliot saw as critical to a poet's survival.
Mahon has been read—and rightly—as a poet of place—but he is also, despite his fi re-king's desire to be 'through with history'—a poet with a strongly developed 'historical sense' of the kind Eliot saw as critical to a poet's survival.
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Mahon's career coincides with a period of drastic historical and cultural transformation in Ireland and beyond. In the first place, there was the eruption of violence in the wake of the Civil Rights marches in Northern Ireland in 1969, ...
Mahon's career coincides with a period of drastic historical and cultural transformation in Ireland and beyond. In the first place, there was the eruption of violence in the wake of the Civil Rights marches in Northern Ireland in 1969, ...
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It presents him as a historical exhibit, 'A male child in a garden | Clutching the Empire News,' an epitome of Northern Irish Protestant boyhood, living in a world defined not only by Belfast but Empire, war, 'Americans in the art-deco ...
It presents him as a historical exhibit, 'A male child in a garden | Clutching the Empire News,' an epitome of Northern Irish Protestant boyhood, living in a world defined not only by Belfast but Empire, war, 'Americans in the art-deco ...
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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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