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 12
... thought 'this place is sick'.21 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 ...
... thought 'this place is sick'.21 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 ...
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... thought he would be the only applicant 'since as far as I knew I was the only person—at least in that part of the world—who was writing poetry'. Confident he would win the £50 prize, he was 'pipped at the post by someone I'd never heard ...
... thought he would be the only applicant 'since as far as I knew I was the only person—at least in that part of the world—who was writing poetry'. Confident he would win the £50 prize, he was 'pipped at the post by someone I'd never heard ...
Side 17
... thought might grow. If most of Mahon's career was largely spent elsewhere, his Northern Irish background is never far away. In 'The Sea in Winter' (CP 116) he describes the North as 'un beau pays mal habité' and 'Death and the Sun ...
... thought might grow. If most of Mahon's career was largely spent elsewhere, his Northern Irish background is never far away. In 'The Sea in Winter' (CP 116) he describes the North as 'un beau pays mal habité' and 'Death and the Sun ...
Side 19
... Thought Might Grow', Poetry Review,81.2 (Summer 1991); for a protest against his development, 8. see John Redmond, 'Perish the Thought', London Review of Books, 5 April 2001. See Jack Stillinger's Coleridge and Textual Instability: The ...
... Thought Might Grow', Poetry Review,81.2 (Summer 1991); for a protest against his development, 8. see John Redmond, 'Perish the Thought', London Review of Books, 5 April 2001. See Jack Stillinger's Coleridge and Textual Instability: The ...
Side 21
... thought the city'a gorgeous place ... a happy alternative to Belfast'.1 There has been a tendency to view Mahon as part of the 'Group'associated with Philip Hobsbaum at Queen's Belfast, attended by Heaney, Longley, and others, but ...
... thought the city'a gorgeous place ... a happy alternative to Belfast'.1 There has been a tendency to view Mahon as part of the 'Group'associated with Philip Hobsbaum at Queen's Belfast, attended by Heaney, Longley, and others, but ...
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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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