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 8
... Belfast of his childhood, offering 'an oblique light on the trite', as he says at the opening, but also an eye for the numinous, the 'glittering' coal and 'ceiling cradled in a radiant spoon'. While others in this Delftian Belfast dream ...
... Belfast of his childhood, offering 'an oblique light on the trite', as he says at the opening, but also an eye for the numinous, the 'glittering' coal and 'ceiling cradled in a radiant spoon'. While others in this Delftian Belfast dream ...
Side 10
... Belfast's other key industry, at the York Street Flax Spinning Company. After marriage, the Mahons lived in a semi-detached red-brick house in a cul-de-sac on Salisbury Avenue off the Antrim Road, North Belfast. The house had a privet ...
... Belfast's other key industry, at the York Street Flax Spinning Company. After marriage, the Mahons lived in a semi-detached red-brick house in a cul-de-sac on Salisbury Avenue off the Antrim Road, North Belfast. The house had a privet ...
Side 11
... Belfast' as everyone howls 'O God, Our Help in Ages Past'. Elsewhere he recalls his father taking him 'to see the slipway where the Titanic was launched' and 'the image of dandelions growing from under the sliprails'. The fate of the ...
... Belfast' as everyone howls 'O God, Our Help in Ages Past'. Elsewhere he recalls his father taking him 'to see the slipway where the Titanic was launched' and 'the image of dandelions growing from under the sliprails'. The fate of the ...
Side 12
... Belfast. The mobility, intellectual scepticism, and aesthetic panache of his work offer a concerted protest against his home culture. The poet once called the Ulster of his childhood 'one of the most closed societies in Europe', and ...
... Belfast. The mobility, intellectual scepticism, and aesthetic panache of his work offer a concerted protest against his home culture. The poet once called the Ulster of his childhood 'one of the most closed societies in Europe', and ...
Side 13
Hugh Haughton. After Skegoneil primary school, Mahon went on to the Royal Belfast Academical Institution, popularly known as Inst. This austerely handsome Georgian school in central Belfast was founded by members of the Belfast ...
Hugh Haughton. After Skegoneil primary school, Mahon went on to the Royal Belfast Academical Institution, popularly known as Inst. This austerely handsome Georgian school in central Belfast was founded by members of the Belfast ...
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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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