The Poetry of Derek MahonDerek 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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1 In 'Resistance Days' Derek Mahon wishes a photographer friend, 'good light or a light in a mist |safe from the critic and the invasive tourist'.1 Despite the poet's scepticism, my hope is that criticism can throw a 'good light' on his ...
1 In 'Resistance Days' Derek Mahon wishes a photographer friend, 'good light or a light in a mist |safe from the critic and the invasive tourist'.1 Despite the poet's scepticism, my hope is that criticism can throw a 'good light' on his ...
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5 Mahon is not a hermetically 'difficult' poet like Yeats, Hill, Muldoon, or McGuckian but he is a widely travelled, ... poet with a strongly developed 'historical sense' of the kind Eliot saw as critical to a poet's survival.
5 Mahon is not a hermetically 'difficult' poet like Yeats, Hill, Muldoon, or McGuckian but he is a widely travelled, ... poet with a strongly developed 'historical sense' of the kind Eliot saw as critical to a poet's survival.
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However, I frequently refer back to earlier alternative versions where they are germane to the story of his development, and am interested in the poet's ongoing dialogue with himself represented by the later versions.
However, I frequently refer back to earlier alternative versions where they are germane to the story of his development, and am interested in the poet's ongoing dialogue with himself represented by the later versions.
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The barren spell was broken by A Yaddo Letter (1992), which led to the poet's resurrection in a new guise, represented by the long experimental epistolary sequences The Hudson Letter (1995) and The Yellow Book (1997).
The barren spell was broken by A Yaddo Letter (1992), which led to the poet's resurrection in a new guise, represented by the long experimental epistolary sequences The Hudson Letter (1995) and The Yellow Book (1997).
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If he is a poet of place comparable to Elizabeth Bishop, he is also a poet of 'the modern condition' like Eliot or Yeats, reflecting everywhere upon the reality of the city, contemporary culture, the world of the newspapers and ...
If he is a poet of place comparable to Elizabeth Bishop, he is also a poet of 'the modern condition' like Eliot or Yeats, reflecting everywhere upon the reality of the city, contemporary culture, the world of the newspapers and ...
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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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Bibliografisk informasjon
| Tittel | The Poetry of Derek Mahon |
| Forfatter | Hugh Haughton |
| Utgiver | OUP Oxford, 2010 |
| ISBN | 0191615587, 9780191615580 |
| Lengde | 416 sider |
| Eksporter sitat | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |