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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... writing and modern poetry more generally. Haughton's brilliant writing always serves and illuminates the poetry, yielding extraordinary insights on almost every page. The poetry, its revisions and reception, are its subject, but the ...
... writing and modern poetry more generally. Haughton's brilliant writing always serves and illuminates the poetry, yielding extraordinary insights on almost every page. The poetry, its revisions and reception, are its subject, but the ...
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... writing. If his outlook is the opposite of insular, however, he notes also how 'Irish culture thrives not only at home but also ... written in Ireland since the death of Yeats' and his work has had a visible influence on contemporaries 2 ...
... writing. If his outlook is the opposite of insular, however, he notes also how 'Irish culture thrives not only at home but also ... written in Ireland since the death of Yeats' and his work has had a visible influence on contemporaries 2 ...
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... writing re-writing, and allusion is a way of situating the new in relationship to the past, a way of gauging where we are by where we have come from. Mahon has been read—and rightly—as a poet of place—but he is also, despite his fi re ...
... writing re-writing, and allusion is a way of situating the new in relationship to the past, a way of gauging where we are by where we have come from. Mahon has been read—and rightly—as a poet of place—but he is also, despite his fi re ...
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... written a childhood memoir, like so many of his contemporaries, his interviews offer a remarkably consistent picture of his early city life. 'I was born odd,' he once said, 'a slip of the pen.'11 He was the only child of parents in a ...
... written a childhood memoir, like so many of his contemporaries, his interviews offer a remarkably consistent picture of his early city life. 'I was born odd,' he once said, 'a slip of the pen.'11 He was the only child of parents in a ...
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... written, became 'the hero of a million solitary teenage bedrooms', a 'subversive folk-rock Dionysian celebrity' who 'talked the talk and walked the walk'and 'struck an immediate chord with the young'.39 He came to represent above all 'a ...
... written, became 'the hero of a million solitary teenage bedrooms', a 'subversive folk-rock Dionysian celebrity' who 'talked the talk and walked the walk'and 'struck an immediate chord with the young'.39 He came to represent above all 'a ...
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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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