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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... Ulster writers, Louis MacNeice and W. R. Rodgers, had fled the stage. Though they created a poetry of great linguistic panache out of the contradictions of their inheritance, they had moved on to London in mid-century. Likewise, John ...
... Ulster writers, Louis MacNeice and W. R. Rodgers, had fled the stage. Though they created a poetry of great linguistic panache out of the contradictions of their inheritance, they had moved on to London in mid-century. Likewise, John ...
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... Ulster night' in British Northern Ireland.45 The poem evokes the day of Camus's death but also the sixth-form where Mahon first read him, admiring 'the frank composure | Of a stranger bayed by dogs'. With its 'Bogartian urgencies', the ...
... Ulster night' in British Northern Ireland.45 The poem evokes the day of Camus's death but also the sixth-form where Mahon first read him, admiring 'the frank composure | Of a stranger bayed by dogs'. With its 'Bogartian urgencies', the ...
Side 19
... Ulster', Lettres Nouvelles, March 21. 22. 1973, 194. 'Derek Mahon', interview in James P. Myers (1999), 192. Eavan Boland, 'The Northern Writers' Crisis of Conscience', Irish Times, 12 23. August 1970,12. Paris Review (2000), 156. 24 ...
... Ulster', Lettres Nouvelles, March 21. 22. 1973, 194. 'Derek Mahon', interview in James P. Myers (1999), 192. Eavan Boland, 'The Northern Writers' Crisis of Conscience', Irish Times, 12 23. August 1970,12. Paris Review (2000), 156. 24 ...
Side 20
... Ulster Writer', Tom Clyde (ed.), Ancestral Voices: The Selected Prose of John Hewitt (Belfast: Blackstaff Press, 1987); 'Once Alien here', Frank Ormsby (ed.), The Collected Poems of John Hewitt (Belfast: Blackstaff Press, 1991), 20, 76 ...
... Ulster Writer', Tom Clyde (ed.), Ancestral Voices: The Selected Prose of John Hewitt (Belfast: Blackstaff Press, 1987); 'Once Alien here', Frank Ormsby (ed.), The Collected Poems of John Hewitt (Belfast: Blackstaff Press, 1991), 20, 76 ...
Side 37
... Ulster legends (as in the 'Giant's Causeway'), while the references to 'long ships' in clover recall Viking and other early invaders as well as the Belfast shipyards. In associating saints and heroes with 'conspiring seas', Mahon ...
... Ulster legends (as in the 'Giant's Causeway'), while the references to 'long ships' in clover recall Viking and other early invaders as well as the Belfast shipyards. In associating saints and heroes with 'conspiring seas', 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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