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 3
... reflect on the viewpoint of the poet within what Auden calls 'the situation of our time'. For Mahon all reading is rereading, all writing re-writing, and allusion is a way of situating the new in relationship to the past, a way of ...
... reflect on the viewpoint of the poet within what Auden calls 'the situation of our time'. For Mahon all reading is rereading, all writing re-writing, and allusion is a way of situating the new in relationship to the past, a way of ...
Side 4
... and situating it in the context of his life and time, I have organized my study chronologically. After reflecting on his childhood and early life in Belfast in the rest of the Introduction, 4 introduction: the poetics of home.
... and situating it in the context of his life and time, I have organized my study chronologically. After reflecting on his childhood and early life in Belfast in the rest of the Introduction, 4 introduction: the poetics of home.
Side 7
... reflecting everywhere upon the reality of the city, contemporary culture, the world of the newspapers and television ... reflects an Ireland in the throes of social and cultural change, caught up in the larger processes of globalization ...
... reflecting everywhere upon the reality of the city, contemporary culture, the world of the newspapers and television ... reflects an Ireland in the throes of social and cultural change, caught up in the larger processes of globalization ...
Side 16
... reflecting on the unresolved gap between the ordinary self (here got up as the 'homme moyen sensuel') and the self'stripped for authorship'. 'Stripped for authorship' suggests a swimmer or boxer, but the poet's problem is to give the ...
... reflecting on the unresolved gap between the ordinary self (here got up as the 'homme moyen sensuel') and the self'stripped for authorship'. 'Stripped for authorship' suggests a swimmer or boxer, but the poet's problem is to give the ...
Side 26
... reflecting a contemporary Ireland that had not yet found expression in verse (or indeed prose).22 Though never republished, the poem recognizes the kind of social world Larkin had annexed in England, but in an Irish context. Its ...
... reflecting a contemporary Ireland that had not yet found expression in verse (or indeed prose).22 Though never republished, the poem recognizes the kind of social world Larkin had annexed in England, but in an Irish context. Its ...
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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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