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 5
... once dubbed him 'the Heraclitus of the Post-Modern', and as readers of his work we can rarely assume we are stepping into the same poem twice. Revision and development go hand in hand, as we can see in the career of other revisionary ...
... once dubbed him 'the Heraclitus of the Post-Modern', and as readers of his work we can rarely assume we are stepping into the same poem twice. Revision and development go hand in hand, as we can see in the career of other revisionary ...
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... once said, 'a slip of the pen.'11 He was the only child of parents in a 'working-class Protestant environment which had risen, as it were, into the lower middle class'.12 His male relatives all worked in the Harland & Wolff shipyard or ...
... once said, 'a slip of the pen.'11 He was the only child of parents in a 'working-class Protestant environment which had risen, as it were, into the lower middle class'.12 His male relatives all worked in the Harland & Wolff shipyard or ...
Side 11
... once dilated on his memory of an image from A Night to Remember, where the engineer who designed the ship, gazes at a 'picture of the statue of Liberty' as the boat begins to sink, 'with an expression on his face, as if to say, there's ...
... once dilated on his memory of an image from A Night to Remember, where the engineer who designed the ship, gazes at a 'picture of the statue of Liberty' as the boat begins to sink, 'with an expression on his face, as if to say, there's ...
Side 12
... once called the Ulster of his childhood 'one of the most closed societies in Europe', and compared it to South Africa or the Southern USA. He recalled 'the old clichés' of parks closed on Sundays, pub signs saying 'closed' at ten o ...
... once called the Ulster of his childhood 'one of the most closed societies in Europe', and compared it to South Africa or the Southern USA. He recalled 'the old clichés' of parks closed on Sundays, pub signs saying 'closed' at ten o ...
Side 14
... Once Alien here', was living in Coventry.35 Mahon records that the contemporary poetry encountered at Inst could be classified as 'the Illustrious, the Local and the New English (Of Clarke and Kavanagh, the Dublin poets, we as yet knew ...
... Once Alien here', was living in Coventry.35 Mahon records that the contemporary poetry encountered at Inst could be classified as 'the Illustrious, the Local and the New English (Of Clarke and Kavanagh, the Dublin poets, we as yet knew ...
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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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