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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... line'. The novelist John Banville calls 'A Disused Shed in Co Wexford' 'the best single poem written in Ireland since the death of Yeats' and his work has had a visible influence on contemporaries 2 introduction: the poetics of home.
... line'. The novelist John Banville calls 'A Disused Shed in Co Wexford' 'the best single poem written in Ireland since the death of Yeats' and his work has had a visible influence on contemporaries 2 introduction: the poetics of home.
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... lines, neither Mahon's Collected Poems nor Selected Poems offer any information about the publishing history or provenance of the poems they include. This makes it hard for a reader to trace the poet's development. Since I am interested ...
... lines, neither Mahon's Collected Poems nor Selected Poems offer any information about the publishing history or provenance of the poems they include. This makes it hard for a reader to trace the poet's development. Since I am interested ...
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... lines'.40 Cast in 6-line stanzas, it weighed in at exactly 84 lines, and its style is typified by the opening: 'The power that gives the waters breath | And spins the dry autumnal life | Into the feathered sky | Has fused the substance ...
... lines'.40 Cast in 6-line stanzas, it weighed in at exactly 84 lines, and its style is typified by the opening: 'The power that gives the waters breath | And spins the dry autumnal life | Into the feathered sky | Has fused the substance ...
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... lines Shake out white linen over the chalk thanes. (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 ...
... lines Shake out white linen over the chalk thanes. (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 ...
Side 36
... lines ('Wonders are many and none is more wonderful than Man | Who has Tamed the Terrier, Trimmed the hedge'), as well as a powerful reversed pattern in the first line ('Wonders are Many', 'More Wonderful than Man'), that recall the ...
... lines ('Wonders are many and none is more wonderful than Man | Who has Tamed the Terrier, Trimmed the hedge'), as well as a powerful reversed pattern in the first line ('Wonders are Many', 'More Wonderful than Man'), that recall the ...
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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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