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 7
... Ireland in the throes of social and cultural change, caught up in the larger processes of globalization and ... Northern Ireland, his own accounts of his cultural formation, and his first encounters with poetry. 2 'One part of my mind ...
... Ireland in the throes of social and cultural change, caught up in the larger processes of globalization and ... Northern Ireland, his own accounts of his cultural formation, and his first encounters with poetry. 2 'One part of my mind ...
Side 11
... Northern 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 ...
... Northern 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 ...
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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 ... Northern Irish background is never far away. In 'The Sea in Winter' (CP 116) ... Northern Ireland.45 The poem evokes the day of Camus's death but also the sixth-form ...
... Ireland to the sidelines' and that 'she's been forced back into the ... Northern Irish background is never far away. In 'The Sea in Winter' (CP 116) ... Northern Ireland.45 The poem evokes the day of Camus's death but also the sixth-form ...
Side 18
... Northern Ireland in the late 1970s, the rest of his career has been spent away from it, living either in the Irish Republic, England, or the USA, with interludes travelling in Europe. If he started out as a poet in resistance to his ...
... Northern Ireland in the late 1970s, the rest of his career has been spent away from it, living either in the Irish Republic, England, or the USA, with interludes travelling in Europe. If he started out as a poet in resistance to his ...
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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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