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 7
... speak of 'The things that happen in the kitchen houses | And echoing back streets of this desperate city'. The poem's desperate city is Belfast, the poet's original home. Knowing your mind's place is a complex business, however, and the ...
... speak of 'The things that happen in the kitchen houses | And echoing back streets of this desperate city'. The poem's desperate city is Belfast, the poet's original home. Knowing your mind's place is a complex business, however, and the ...
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... speaks of 'the resilience of our lyric appetite', and my study, though it takes its bearings from biographical and cultural contexts, is guided by the assumption that his lyric poetry, like all the best poetry, operates within the most ...
... speaks of 'the resilience of our lyric appetite', and my study, though it takes its bearings from biographical and cultural contexts, is guided by the assumption that his lyric poetry, like all the best poetry, operates within the most ...
Side 28
... speaks of 'Intricacies of the maze and the rat race', precisely internalizing the 'economic and psychological conditions in which people live'. 'Before Migrating', a poem about birds in the same issue, exemplifies the same point ...
... speaks of 'Intricacies of the maze and the rat race', precisely internalizing the 'economic and psychological conditions in which people live'. 'Before Migrating', a poem about birds in the same issue, exemplifies the same point ...
Side 38
... speaks of in 'Carrick Revisited', there is a constant play between geography and language here.48 'The high ground' evokes the idea of 'the moral high ground', the grave 'plot' the idea of narrative and political 'plots', while the ...
... speaks of in 'Carrick Revisited', there is a constant play between geography and language here.48 'The high ground' evokes the idea of 'the moral high ground', the grave 'plot' the idea of narrative and political 'plots', while the ...
Side 39
... speaks of the 'mornings after the All Clear, | When you were looting shops in elemental joy'.49 The 'choked mud' must refer to MacNeice's nightmare vision of the First World War in Autumn Journal ('someone at Gallipoli or in Flanders ...
... speaks of the 'mornings after the All Clear, | When you were looting shops in elemental joy'.49 The 'choked mud' must refer to MacNeice's nightmare vision of the First World War in Autumn Journal ('someone at Gallipoli or in Flanders ...
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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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