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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... later incarnations in various Selected Poems and the Collected Poems.8 Contemporary readers have easy access to Collected Poems (1999) and/or the most recent Selected Poems (2006), and my study treats these as the 'canonic'texts—those ...
... later incarnations in various Selected Poems and the Collected Poems.8 Contemporary readers have easy access to Collected Poems (1999) and/or the most recent Selected Poems (2006), and my study treats these as the 'canonic'texts—those ...
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... later mixedmode polyphonic works as betrayals of the taut, well-wrought stanzaic poetry of earlier books like The Snow Party. Many others deplore his self-revisions. They view Mahon's career, like Auden's, in terms of betrayal and ...
... later mixedmode polyphonic works as betrayals of the taut, well-wrought stanzaic poetry of earlier books like The Snow Party. Many others deplore his self-revisions. They view Mahon's career, like Auden's, in terms of betrayal and ...
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... later that 'Home is where the heart breaks' (CP 135), and the resistance of that strained only child is never far away. 'We lived in North Belfast which has a peculiarly isolated ethnic ambience', he said, 'cut off ... from all but ...
... later that 'Home is where the heart breaks' (CP 135), and the resistance of that strained only child is never far away. 'We lived in North Belfast which has a peculiarly isolated ethnic ambience', he said, 'cut off ... from all but ...
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... later intellectual life can be seen as an attempt to recover from—and resist—his early experience of life in Belfast. The mobility, intellectual scepticism, and aesthetic panache of his work offer a concerted protest against his home ...
... later intellectual life can be seen as an attempt to recover from—and resist—his early experience of life in Belfast. The mobility, intellectual scepticism, and aesthetic panache of his work offer a concerted protest against his home ...
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... 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 'Northern Irish ...
... 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 'Northern Irish ...
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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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