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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... Ireland' in 1921. 'After the Titanic' (CP 30) turns the fate of Belfast's most famous product into a parable of obsolescence and the vanity of human wishes but also, significantly, survivor's guilt. In an un-reprinted prose sketch in ...
... Ireland' in 1921. 'After the Titanic' (CP 30) turns the fate of Belfast's most famous product into a parable of obsolescence and the vanity of human wishes but also, significantly, survivor's guilt. In an un-reprinted prose sketch in ...
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... Ireland, and increasingly the North of Ireland'.34 Though he casts his teenage self in an ironic light, there were no visible signs of the imminent 'Northern Irish Renaissance'. The earlier Ulster writers, Louis MacNeice and W. R. ...
... Ireland, and increasingly the North of Ireland'.34 Though he casts his teenage self in an ironic light, there were no visible signs of the imminent 'Northern Irish Renaissance'. The earlier Ulster writers, Louis MacNeice and W. R. ...
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... Ireland to the sidelines' and that 'she's been forced back into the twentieth century by events in the North, the forgotten North'. Though those events postdated his schooldays by almost a decade, these accounts turn what might have ...
... Ireland to the sidelines' and that 'she's been forced back into the twentieth century by events in the North, the forgotten North'. Though those events postdated his schooldays by almost a decade, these accounts turn what might have ...
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... Ireland, but it draws on a rich experience in many other places, a broad hinterland of reading and an acute sense of what he calls in his Introduction to The Sphere Book of Modern Irish Poetry (1972) 'the metaphysical unease in which ...
... Ireland, but it draws on a rich experience in many other places, a broad hinterland of reading and an acute sense of what he calls in his Introduction to The Sphere Book of Modern Irish Poetry (1972) 'the metaphysical unease in which ...
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... 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 Neil Corcoran (ed.), The Chosen Ground (Swansea: Seren, 1992). Derek Mahon ...
... 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 Neil Corcoran (ed.), The Chosen Ground (Swansea: Seren, 1992). Derek Mahon ...
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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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