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 6
... Heaney does, it impinges intimately on the estranged poetry of The Snow Party and The Hunt by Night (1982), providing an essential dimension of the enigmatically displaced poetry of 'A Disused Shed in Co Wexford' and 'The Snow Party ...
... Heaney does, it impinges intimately on the estranged poetry of The Snow Party and The Hunt by Night (1982), providing an essential dimension of the enigmatically displaced poetry of 'A Disused Shed in Co Wexford' and 'The Snow Party ...
Side 8
... Heaney, but in a specific city with a date as well as time. Other poems recreate his time at 'Skegoneil Primary School' and childhood holidays on the Antrim coast (like the glumly Larkinesque 'The Last Resort'). A photograph of Mahon ...
... Heaney, but in a specific city with a date as well as time. Other poems recreate his time at 'Skegoneil Primary School' and childhood holidays on the Antrim coast (like the glumly Larkinesque 'The Last Resort'). A photograph of Mahon ...
Side 10
... Heaney attempted to establish continuity between his writer's pen and his father's spade. Mahon makes a comparable equation, in joke form: All the men in the family were concentrated on ships and the sea ... I wanted to go to sea myself ...
... Heaney attempted to establish continuity between his writer's pen and his father's spade. Mahon makes a comparable equation, in joke form: All the men in the family were concentrated on ships and the sea ... I wanted to go to sea myself ...
Side 19
... Heaney wrote an essay on 'Place and Displacement: Recent Poetry in Northern Ireland' (1984), prompting an earlier essay of my own, ' “Even now, there are places where a thought might grow”: Place and Displacement in Derek 4. Mahon', in ...
... Heaney wrote an essay on 'Place and Displacement: Recent Poetry in Northern Ireland' (1984), prompting an earlier essay of my own, ' “Even now, there are places where a thought might grow”: Place and Displacement in Derek 4. Mahon', in ...
Side 21
... Heaney, Longley, and others, but although Mahon went to one meeting he 'found the atmosphere disagreeably combative and never went again'.2 It was actually in the Bohemian Dublin of the 1960s that Mahon forged his identity as a poet in ...
... Heaney, Longley, and others, but although Mahon went to one meeting he 'found the atmosphere disagreeably combative and never went again'.2 It was actually in the Bohemian Dublin of the 1960s that Mahon forged his identity as a poet in ...
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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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