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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... a spearhead of post-colonial writing and a site where the relationship between poetry, politics, and identity has been played out with unusual aesthetic intensity. If Seamus Heaney is the best known of contemporary Irish poets, ...
... a spearhead of post-colonial writing and a site where the relationship between poetry, politics, and identity has been played out with unusual aesthetic intensity. If Seamus Heaney is the best known of contemporary Irish poets, ...
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This is changed in Collected Poems to 'struck down | in Denver', not presumably for the sake of greater accuracy, or aesthetic or political conscience, but because lightning never strikes twice in the same place.
This is changed in Collected Poems to 'struck down | in Denver', not presumably for the sake of greater accuracy, or aesthetic or political conscience, but because lightning never strikes twice in the same place.
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In the first place, there was the eruption of violence in the wake of the Civil Rights marches in Northern Ireland in 1969, which inaugurated an era of political bloodshed and civil conflict in his native province.
In the first place, there was the eruption of violence in the wake of the Civil Rights marches in Northern Ireland in 1969, which inaugurated an era of political bloodshed and civil conflict in his native province.
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He didn't think 'I can't stand this political system' but thought 'this place is sick'.21 At the time he wasn't conscious of 'the sectarian aspect of things', he said, though he had heard 'terrifying stories' of the shipyards between ...
He didn't think 'I can't stand this political system' but thought 'this place is sick'.21 At the time he wasn't conscious of 'the sectarian aspect of things', he said, though he had heard 'terrifying stories' of the shipyards between ...
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Though in love with the aesthetic, and gifted with a unique ear for intellectual cantabile, there is always an edge of political anger, and cultural critique in his work, born of a sense of damage that has ...
Though in love with the aesthetic, and gifted with a unique ear for intellectual cantabile, there is always an edge of political anger, and cultural critique in his work, born of a sense of damage that has ...
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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 |