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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Side 4
... of Night-Crossing, Mahon fiercely defended his right to revise his work to Longley, and the jacket of Collected Poems says it 'brings together, in updated form, the poems the author wishes to preserve, from the work of forty years.
... of Night-Crossing, Mahon fiercely defended his right to revise his work to Longley, and the jacket of Collected Poems says it 'brings together, in updated form, the poems the author wishes to preserve, from the work of forty years.
Side 7
2 'One part of my mind must learn to know its place', Mahon says in the first poem in Collected Poems (CP 13). He goes on to speak of 'The things that happen in the kitchen houses | And echoing back streets of this desperate city'.
2 'One part of my mind must learn to know its place', Mahon says in the first poem in Collected Poems (CP 13). He goes on to speak of 'The things that happen in the kitchen houses | And echoing back streets of this desperate city'.
Side 8
The poem transforms the neat Protestant working-class Belfast of his childhood, offering 'an oblique light on the trite', as he says at the opening, but also an eye for the numinous, the 'glittering' coal and 'ceiling cradled in a ...
The poem transforms the neat Protestant working-class Belfast of his childhood, offering 'an oblique light on the trite', as he says at the opening, but also an eye for the numinous, the 'glittering' coal and 'ceiling cradled in a ...
Side 10
He says it was 'pathological', that 'she'd keep dusting and keep everything as bright as a new penny'. This was 'a strain on the child, an irritant', causing him occasionally to do deliberately infuriating things, such as knocking over ...
He says it was 'pathological', that 'she'd keep dusting and keep everything as bright as a new penny'. This was 'a strain on the child, an irritant', causing him occasionally to do deliberately infuriating things, such as knocking over ...
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23 He was a member of the choir until his voice broke, and says the 'hymnology invaded the mind'. Although never a 'conventional believer', he believed 'in the words and the tunes', noting the way words in the hymnal became 'clumped ...
23 He was a member of the choir until his voice broke, and says the 'hymnology invaded the mind'. Although never a 'conventional believer', he believed 'in the words and the tunes', noting the way words in the hymnal became 'clumped ...
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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 |