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 'Ironic Conscience': Lives 4. The Poetry of Afterlives: The Snow Party 5. Writing Crisis: The Sea in Winter 6. 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 ...
The 'Ironic Conscience': Lives 4. The Poetry of Afterlives: The Snow Party 5. Writing Crisis: The Sea in Winter 6. 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 ...
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It was only much later he became aware of a 'whole community of poets scattered around Ireland, and increasingly the North of Ireland'.34 Though he casts his teenage self in an ironic light, there were no visible signs of the imminent ...
It was only much later he became aware of a 'whole community of poets scattered around Ireland, and increasingly the North of Ireland'.34 Though he casts his teenage self in an ironic light, there were no visible signs of the imminent ...
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... 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 Auden's 'Musée des Beaux Arts' ('Nor a city take such coward ...
... 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 Auden's 'Musée des Beaux Arts' ('Nor a city take such coward ...
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This may be a comment on the complacently ironic stance of its sexist speaker towards his dream girls 'Left soaking at the end of bars, | Pasted in dying calendars | Or locked in clocks.' 'De Quincey at Grasmere'takes for its subject ...
This may be a comment on the complacently ironic stance of its sexist speaker towards his dream girls 'Left soaking at the end of bars, | Pasted in dying calendars | Or locked in clocks.' 'De Quincey at Grasmere'takes for its subject ...
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(CP 14) The opening plays ironically on the chorus of Sophocles' Antigone ('Wonders are many and none is more wonderful than man'), a phrase Mahon found in the epigraph to Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano about which he had written his ...
(CP 14) The opening plays ironically on the chorus of Sophocles' Antigone ('Wonders are many and none is more wonderful than man'), a phrase Mahon found in the epigraph to Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano about which he had written his ...
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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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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 |