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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1 In 'Resistance Days' Derek Mahon wishes a photographer friend, 'good light or a light in a mist |safe from the critic and the invasive tourist'.1 Despite the poet's scepticism, my hope is that criticism can throw a 'good light' on his ...
1 In 'Resistance Days' Derek Mahon wishes a photographer friend, 'good light or a light in a mist |safe from the critic and the invasive tourist'.1 Despite the poet's scepticism, my hope is that criticism can throw a 'good light' on his ...
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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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(CP 99) Camus's La Peste recasts World War II in Algeria in the light of Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year with 'plague'acting as an allegory of war. Mahon recasts it as an intertextual allegory of the 'plague' about to hit Northern ...
(CP 99) Camus's La Peste recasts World War II in Algeria in the light of Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year with 'plague'acting as an allegory of war. Mahon recasts it as an intertextual allegory of the 'plague' about to hit Northern ...
Side 18
In 'Calypso' from Harbour Lights Mahon imagines Odysseus 'still questioning' the 'strange oracular face' of Calypso, ... Though always devoted to casting 'an oblique light on the trite', like De Hooch or Larkin, Mahon is also, ...
In 'Calypso' from Harbour Lights Mahon imagines Odysseus 'still questioning' the 'strange oracular face' of Calypso, ... Though always devoted to casting 'an oblique light on the trite', like De Hooch or Larkin, Mahon is also, ...
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... Know-how, experience (I travel light) — Girls, you are welcome to my luggage For what it is worth.32 'I travel light,' he says, undercutting his pretentious claims to 'experience', but Mahon has cut the poem from recent collections, ...
... Know-how, experience (I travel light) — Girls, you are welcome to my luggage For what it is worth.32 'I travel light,' he says, undercutting his pretentious claims to 'experience', but Mahon has cut the poem from recent collections, ...
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| 21 | |
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 |