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
... Yellow Book and 'Harbour Lights', Mahon reflects an Ireland in the throes of social and cultural change, caught up in the larger processes of globalization and environmental crisis. He is always a poet of the daily, the ordinary, the ...
... Yellow Book and 'Harbour Lights', Mahon reflects an Ireland in the throes of social and cultural change, caught up in the larger processes of globalization and environmental crisis. He is always a poet of the daily, the ordinary, the ...
Side 15
... Yellow Book. 'This Neuter Moon' revels in equally sophisticated vocabulary ('aureole of snow', 'Wake of nereid'), applying it to the hackneyed subject-matter of the Moon. It ends with po-faced wit: 'Makes promise of return ...
... Yellow Book. 'This Neuter Moon' revels in equally sophisticated vocabulary ('aureole of snow', 'Wake of nereid'), applying it to the hackneyed subject-matter of the Moon. It ends with po-faced wit: 'Makes promise of return ...
Side 22
... Yellow Book to memories of Clarke in Dublin 'in the demure '60s' (CP 230). Both poets brought a new realism into Irish verse, and, according to Mahon, contributed 'to the secularisation and de-mystification of Irish poetry'. In 1972 ...
... Yellow Book to memories of Clarke in Dublin 'in the demure '60s' (CP 230). Both poets brought a new realism into Irish verse, and, according to Mahon, contributed 'to the secularisation and de-mystification of Irish poetry'. In 1972 ...
Side 23
... Yellow Book (1997). 'Shiver in your tenement' describes the older literary generation of Clarke as they 'strolled down Dawson Street or Grafton St', apparently 'living the life of the mind'. Though they are 'introspective' in their ...
... Yellow Book (1997). 'Shiver in your tenement' describes the older literary generation of Clarke as they 'strolled down Dawson Street or Grafton St', apparently 'living the life of the mind'. Though they are 'introspective' in their ...
Side 31
... Yellow Book, where he reads 'the symbolists as the season dies' (CP 225). The early Baudelaire translations tell more of aspiration than achievement ('Your pity I implore, my only Aspiration, | Out of this limbo pit where my distraught ...
... Yellow Book, where he reads 'the symbolists as the season dies' (CP 225). The early Baudelaire translations tell more of aspiration than achievement ('Your pity I implore, my only Aspiration, | Out of this limbo pit where my distraught ...
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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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