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 ix
... Collection Ulster Museum, Belfast. Photograph reproduced with the kind permission of the Trustees of the National Museums Northern Ireland. 157 182 186 272 328 Abbreviations References to poems in the text are to Derek List of ...
... Collection Ulster Museum, Belfast. Photograph reproduced with the kind permission of the Trustees of the National Museums Northern Ireland. 157 182 186 272 328 Abbreviations References to poems in the text are to Derek List of ...
Side 3
... kind Eliot saw as critical to a poet's survival. His texts are inherently intertextual and international, and reading him involves situating him in an ongoing, idiosyncratic dialogue with predecessors and contemporaries, as well as in ...
... kind Eliot saw as critical to a poet's survival. His texts are inherently intertextual and international, and reading him involves situating him in an ongoing, idiosyncratic dialogue with predecessors and contemporaries, as well as in ...
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... kind of resistance bound up with the rage for order. He likes to quote Raymond Chandler's dictum, 'No art without the resistance of the medium', and his poetry is also shaped by his sense of the formal reality of the 'thing made', the ...
... kind of resistance bound up with the rage for order. He likes to quote Raymond Chandler's dictum, 'No art without the resistance of the medium', and his poetry is also shaped by his sense of the formal reality of the 'thing made', the ...
Side 21
... kind of Ireland began to come to life'.3 This was particularly evident in Dublin when Mahon arrived there. De Valera's elevation to the presidency in 1959 marked the end of an era, with historians identifying a fresh dynamism in the ...
... kind of Ireland began to come to life'.3 This was particularly evident in Dublin when Mahon arrived there. De Valera's elevation to the presidency in 1959 marked the end of an era, with historians identifying a fresh dynamism in the ...
Side 26
... kind of social world Larkin had annexed in England, but in an Irish context. Its reference to the 'five other senses' recalls his review of Solstices where he said MacNeice's 'world is what he has experienced with his five fairly well ...
... kind of social world Larkin had annexed in England, but in an Irish context. Its reference to the 'five other senses' recalls his review of Solstices where he said MacNeice's 'world is what he has experienced with his five fairly well ...
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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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