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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He has also been a committed reviser of his work, believing the poem to be more than a completed record in verse, but a work of art never finished. This virtuoso study by Hugh Haughton provides a comprehensive account of Mahon's oeuvre, ...
He has also been a committed reviser of his work, believing the poem to be more than a completed record in verse, but a work of art never finished. This virtuoso study by Hugh Haughton provides a comprehensive account of Mahon's oeuvre, ...
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... Peter Fallon) The Penguin Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry (1990), aligning himself with an incorrigibly pluralist vision of Irish verse, which embraces North and South, modernist and traditionalist, cosmopolitan and parochial.
... Peter Fallon) The Penguin Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry (1990), aligning himself with an incorrigibly pluralist vision of Irish verse, which embraces North and South, modernist and traditionalist, cosmopolitan and parochial.
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imagines himself 'lying low in a room there, | strange child with a taste for A verse, | While my hard-nosed companions dream of fire | And sword upon parched veldt and fields of rain-swept gorse.' The poem transforms the neat ...
imagines himself 'lying low in a room there, | strange child with a taste for A verse, | While my hard-nosed companions dream of fire | And sword upon parched veldt and fields of rain-swept gorse.' The poem transforms the neat ...
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... line with that 'English education in a non-English setting,' Mahon first encountered poetry in a 'wonderful school anthology called A Pageant of English Verse', which started with 'Summer is icumen in' and finished with 'Fern Hill'.
... line with that 'English education in a non-English setting,' Mahon first encountered poetry in a 'wonderful school anthology called A Pageant of English Verse', which started with 'Summer is icumen in' and finished with 'Fern Hill'.
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Both poets brought a new realism into Irish verse, and, according to Mahon, contributed 'to the secularisation and de-mystification of Irish poetry'. In 1972, remembering Stephen Dedalus's aspiration to forge 'the uncreated conscience' ...
Both poets brought a new realism into Irish verse, and, according to Mahon, contributed 'to the secularisation and de-mystification of Irish poetry'. In 1972, remembering Stephen Dedalus's aspiration to forge 'the uncreated conscience' ...
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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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