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 5
For Mahon each publication is its own context, an opportunity for reexhibition of his work, and he tends to hang things in a new order, or in revised form or under a new title. The poem now called 'After the Titanic', for example, ...
For Mahon each publication is its own context, an opportunity for reexhibition of his work, and he tends to hang things in a new order, or in revised form or under a new title. The poem now called 'After the Titanic', for example, ...
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He goes on to 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, ...
He goes on to 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, ...
Side 8
'Since there wasn't any hurly-burly of siblings', Mahon said of his childhood, 'I had time for the eye to dwell on things, for the brain to dream about things.'9 Dwelling and dreaming are the poet's task, but the poem sets these against ...
'Since there wasn't any hurly-burly of siblings', Mahon said of his childhood, 'I had time for the eye to dwell on things, for the brain to dream about things.'9 Dwelling and dreaming are the poet's task, but the poem sets these against ...
Side 10
This was 'a strain on the child, an irritant', causing him occasionally to do deliberately infuriating things, such as knocking over a cup.13 Mahon has a troubled poem, written during 'The Troubles', called 'Rage for Order' (CP 47), ...
This was 'a strain on the child, an irritant', causing him occasionally to do deliberately infuriating things, such as knocking over a cup.13 Mahon has a troubled poem, written during 'The Troubles', called 'Rage for Order' (CP 47), ...
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... 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 the wars, 'stories of men being thrown into furnaces' and 'pelted with nuts and bolts'.
... 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 the wars, 'stories of men being thrown into furnaces' and 'pelted with nuts and bolts'.
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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 |