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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... never finished. This virtuoso study by Hugh Haughton provides a comprehensive account of Mahon's oeuvre, in the context of Northern Irish writing and modern poetry more generally. Haughton's brilliant writing always serves and ...
... never finished. This virtuoso study by Hugh Haughton provides a comprehensive account of Mahon's oeuvre, in the context of Northern Irish writing and modern poetry more generally. Haughton's brilliant writing always serves and ...
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... never visits a country twice', he observes that there are countries that it 'visits frequently' and others 'where it never absents itself for long'. Indeed he describes literature in Ireland as 'a continuous stream — sometimes muted ...
... never visits a country twice', he observes that there are countries that it 'visits frequently' and others 'where it never absents itself for long'. Indeed he describes literature in Ireland as 'a continuous stream — sometimes muted ...
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... never strikes twice in the same place. Though I would have liked to devote a chapter to Mahon's revisions, this would have been a distraction from the main itinerary. Nonetheless, I document and discuss examples of self-revision ...
... never strikes twice in the same place. Though I would have liked to devote a chapter to Mahon's revisions, this would have been a distraction from the main itinerary. Nonetheless, I document and discuss examples of self-revision ...
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... never written a childhood memoir, like so many of his contemporaries, his interviews offer a remarkably consistent picture of his early city life. 'I was born odd,' he once said, 'a slip of the pen.'11 He was the only child of parents ...
... never written a childhood memoir, like so many of his contemporaries, his interviews offer a remarkably consistent picture of his early city life. 'I was born odd,' he once said, 'a slip of the pen.'11 He was the only child of parents ...
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... never a 'conventional believer', he believed 'in the words and the tunes', noting the way words in the hymnal became 'clumped printed objects'.24 For Durcan the Bible and hymn-book give his poetry 'a texture which is absent from the ...
... never a 'conventional believer', he believed 'in the words and the tunes', noting the way words in the hymnal became 'clumped printed objects'.24 For Durcan the Bible and hymn-book give his poetry 'a texture which is absent from 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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