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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Side viii
... Night-Crossing 3. The 'Ironic Conscience': Lives 4. The Poetry of Afterlives: The Snow Party 5. Writing Crisis: The Sea in Winter 6. The Time of Exile: The Hunt by Night and Antarctica 7. Poet in New York: The Hudson Letter 8. The ...
... Night-Crossing 3. The 'Ironic Conscience': Lives 4. The Poetry of Afterlives: The Snow Party 5. Writing Crisis: The Sea in Winter 6. The Time of Exile: The Hunt by Night and Antarctica 7. Poet in New York: The Hudson Letter 8. The ...
Side x
... Night (1982) Harbour Lights (2005) Journalism: Selected Prose 1970–1995 (1996) Lives (1972) Night-Crossing (1968) Poems 1962–1978 (1979) The Penguin Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry (1990) The Sphere Book of Modern Irish Poetry (1972) ...
... Night (1982) Harbour Lights (2005) Journalism: Selected Prose 1970–1995 (1996) Lives (1972) Night-Crossing (1968) Poems 1962–1978 (1979) The Penguin Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry (1990) The Sphere Book of Modern Irish Poetry (1972) ...
Side 1
... Night-Crossing (1968) and ending with Harbour Lights (2005). The titles of the two books suggest sea-journeys, departure and arrival, and Mahon is a poet much preoccupied by 'home' and travel, exile and return, place and displacement.3 ...
... Night-Crossing (1968) and ending with Harbour Lights (2005). The titles of the two books suggest sea-journeys, departure and arrival, and Mahon is a poet much preoccupied by 'home' and travel, exile and return, place and displacement.3 ...
Side 17
... night' in British Northern Ireland.45 The poem evokes the day of Camus's death but also the sixth-form where Mahon first read him, admiring 'the frank composure | Of a stranger bayed by dogs'. With its 'Bogartian urgencies', the poem ...
... night' in British Northern Ireland.45 The poem evokes the day of Camus's death but also the sixth-form where Mahon first read him, admiring 'the frank composure | Of a stranger bayed by dogs'. With its 'Bogartian urgencies', the poem ...
Side 21
... the wake of T. K. Whitaker's Economic Development of 1958 and Sean Lemass's accession to power. People had a sense that the long-delayed modernization of Ireland was under way, as, after the culturally 2. Forging an Identity: Night- ...
... the wake of T. K. Whitaker's Economic Development of 1958 and Sean Lemass's accession to power. People had a sense that the long-delayed modernization of Ireland was under way, as, after the culturally 2. Forging an Identity: Night- ...
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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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