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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In some sense adaptation to the present is the poet's big subject, and while this takes place at the lyric core of his work, it also surfaces in his work as poetic translator and theatrical adaptor. He has followed his Collected Poems ...
In some sense adaptation to the present is the poet's big subject, and while this takes place at the lyric core of his work, it also surfaces in his work as poetic translator and theatrical adaptor. He has followed his Collected Poems ...
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The publication of his fifth book, Antarctica (1985), was followed by a period of relative silence, in which he worked on translations and journalism but produced no new lyrics. introduction: the poetics of home 5.
The publication of his fifth book, Antarctica (1985), was followed by a period of relative silence, in which he worked on translations and journalism but produced no new lyrics. introduction: the poetics of home 5.
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worked on translations and journalism but produced no new lyrics. The barren spell was broken by A Yaddo Letter (1992), which led to the poet's resurrection in a new guise, represented by the long experimental epistolary sequences The ...
worked on translations and journalism but produced no new lyrics. The barren spell was broken by A Yaddo Letter (1992), which led to the poet's resurrection in a new guise, represented by the long experimental epistolary sequences The ...
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And that was the end of my seafaring career.14 The episode crops up again in a poem where he says 'I failed the eyesight test | When I tried for the Merchant Navy | And lapsed into this lyric lunacy' (CP62). He called one of his uncles, ...
And that was the end of my seafaring career.14 The episode crops up again in a poem where he says 'I failed the eyesight test | When I tried for the Merchant Navy | And lapsed into this lyric lunacy' (CP62). He called one of his uncles, ...
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he had left Belfast' and an early poem, 'My Wicked Uncle', evokes the glamour of his seafaring career.15 In a sense Mahon's 'lyric lunacy', with its life-long obsession with questions of travel, is a metaphorical embodiment of that lost ...
he had left Belfast' and an early poem, 'My Wicked Uncle', evokes the glamour of his seafaring career.15 In a sense Mahon's 'lyric lunacy', with its life-long obsession with questions of travel, is a metaphorical embodiment of that lost ...
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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 |