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 8
... opening, but also an eye for the numinous, the 'glittering' coal and 'ceiling cradled in a radiant spoon'. While others in this Delftian Belfast dream of 'fire and sword', the strange child recomposes the trite distortions of the ...
... opening, but also an eye for the numinous, the 'glittering' coal and 'ceiling cradled in a radiant spoon'. While others in this Delftian Belfast dream of 'fire and sword', the strange child recomposes the trite distortions of the ...
Side 15
... opening: 'The power that gives the waters breath | And spins the dry autumnal life | Into the feathered sky | Has fused the substance of my year | Into a mould that shall endure | When all my blood-beats die.'The 'power' that gives it ...
... opening: 'The power that gives the waters breath | And spins the dry autumnal life | Into the feathered sky | Has fused the substance of my year | Into a mould that shall endure | When all my blood-beats die.'The 'power' that gives it ...
Side 24
... opening conversation about punctuation'. Though it has been a friendship punctuated by disagreements, it has played a pivotal role for both poets. Both came from the same Belfast school and Protestant background, but, though Longley ...
... opening conversation about punctuation'. Though it has been a friendship punctuated by disagreements, it has played a pivotal role for both poets. Both came from the same Belfast school and Protestant background, but, though Longley ...
Side 35
... 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 Lowry's Under the Volcano about which he had written his earliest ...
... 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 Lowry's Under the Volcano about which he had written his earliest ...
Side 36
... opening not only recalls Sophocles' Antigone but earlier poetry in English. There are two alliterative lines ('Wonders are many and none is more wonderful than Man | Who has Tamed the Terrier, Trimmed the hedge'), as well as a powerful ...
... opening not only recalls Sophocles' Antigone but earlier poetry in English. There are two alliterative lines ('Wonders are many and none is more wonderful than Man | Who has Tamed the Terrier, Trimmed the hedge'), as well as a powerful ...
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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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