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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... played an important role in establishing the direction of modern English-language poetry more generally, as both a special case and a representative one, a spearhead of post-colonial writing and a site where the relationship between ...
... played an important role in establishing the direction of modern English-language poetry more generally, as both a special case and a representative one, a spearhead of post-colonial writing and a site where the relationship between ...
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... play the pantaloon | In its own habitat.' This represents a triumph of style over the poet's own habitat. 'No Love Poems' gives us Mahon's first authenticated literary allusion ('Proust burned for such perfection out of sight'), and ...
... play the pantaloon | In its own habitat.' This represents a triumph of style over the poet's own habitat. 'No Love Poems' gives us Mahon's first authenticated literary allusion ('Proust burned for such perfection out of sight'), and ...
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... player on the scene when Mahon arrived, as was Austin Clarke (1896-1974), a veteran of the Celtic twilight, now launched on the most creative and destructive phase of his career represented by Mnemosyne Lies in Dust (1966) and Old ...
... player on the scene when Mahon arrived, as was Austin Clarke (1896-1974), a veteran of the Celtic twilight, now launched on the most creative and destructive phase of his career represented by Mnemosyne Lies in Dust (1966) and Old ...
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... played host to many who later became hugely influential in Irish poetry, including Kennelly, Boland, Longley, and Ní Chuilleanáin. It was Longley who introduced Mahon to Icarus, where he published his first poem 'Subsidy Bungalows' at ...
... played host to many who later became hugely influential in Irish poetry, including Kennelly, Boland, Longley, and Ní Chuilleanáin. It was Longley who introduced Mahon to Icarus, where he published his first poem 'Subsidy Bungalows' at ...
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... played a pivotal role for both poets. Both came from the same Belfast school and Protestant background, but, though ... playing 'the tin whistle' as 24 forging an identity: NIGHT - CROSSING.
... played a pivotal role for both poets. Both came from the same Belfast school and Protestant background, but, though ... playing 'the tin whistle' as 24 forging an identity: NIGHT - CROSSING.
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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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