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
... recalls his coming to consciousness in Belfast (identified as 'The Home Front'), where he was born after the Blitz of spring 1941. It presents him as a historical exhibit, 'A male child in a garden | Clutching the Empire News,' an ...
... recalls his coming to consciousness in Belfast (identified as 'The Home Front'), where he was born after the Blitz of spring 1941. It presents him as a historical exhibit, 'A male child in a garden | Clutching the Empire News,' an ...
Side 11
... recall his 'ten-year-old delight | at the launch of a P & O liner in Belfast' as everyone howls 'O God, Our Help in Ages Past'. Elsewhere he recalls his father taking him 'to see the slipway where the Titanic was launched' and 'the ...
... recall his 'ten-year-old delight | at the launch of a P & O liner in Belfast' as everyone howls 'O God, Our Help in Ages Past'. Elsewhere he recalls his father taking him 'to see the slipway where the Titanic was launched' and 'the ...
Side 12
... recalled 'the old clichés' of parks closed on Sundays, pub signs saying 'closed' at ten o'clock at night, 'the feeling that all roads were cul-de-sacs and an atmosphere of unhealthy introspection.'20 In another interview he said he ...
... recalled 'the old clichés' of parks closed on Sundays, pub signs saying 'closed' at ten o'clock at night, 'the feeling that all roads were cul-de-sacs and an atmosphere of unhealthy introspection.'20 In another interview he said he ...
Side 13
... recalls 'amazingly accomplished verses in School News'.32 To his mother, Mahon says he became an 'oddity', increasingly withdrawing from school life with a 'group of weirdos' who went to the latest Belfast coffee bars, where they would ...
... recalls 'amazingly accomplished verses in School News'.32 To his mother, Mahon says he became an 'oddity', increasingly withdrawing from school life with a 'group of weirdos' who went to the latest Belfast coffee bars, where they would ...
Side 24
... recalls, got under way 'with that transaction and an 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 ...
... recalls, got under way 'with that transaction and an 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 ...
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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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