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 10
... York Street Flax Spinning Company. After marriage, the Mahons lived in a semi-detached red-brick house in a cul-de-sac on Salisbury Avenue off the Antrim Road, North Belfast. The house had a privet hedge, like those in 'Glengormley ...
... York Street Flax Spinning Company. After marriage, the Mahons lived in a semi-detached red-brick house in a cul-de-sac on Salisbury Avenue off the Antrim Road, North Belfast. The house had a privet hedge, like those in 'Glengormley ...
Side 11
... York, to recall his 'ten-year-old delight | at the launch of a P & O liner in Belfast' as everyone howls 'O God, Our Help in Ages Past'. Elsewhere he recalls his father taking him 'to see the slipway where the Titanic was launched' and ...
... York, to recall his 'ten-year-old delight | at the launch of a P & O liner in Belfast' as everyone howls 'O God, Our Help in Ages Past'. Elsewhere he recalls his father taking him 'to see the slipway where the Titanic was launched' and ...
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... York: Oxford University Press 1994) for a model of how to 9. approach such a publication history. Eamon Grennan, 'Derek Mahon: The Art of Poetry' (interview), Paris Review 10. 11. (Spring 2000), 155. 'Harriet Cooke talks to the poet ...
... York: Oxford University Press 1994) for a model of how to 9. approach such a publication history. Eamon Grennan, 'Derek Mahon: The Art of Poetry' (interview), Paris Review 10. 11. (Spring 2000), 155. 'Harriet Cooke talks to the poet ...
Side 40
... York, Atlanta, Cambridge'.56 The blurb of NightCrossing (1968) summed it up like this: 'After graduating he spent two years in Canada and America, working as, successively, a university lecturer, Xerox operator, warehouseman, bookstore ...
... York, Atlanta, Cambridge'.56 The blurb of NightCrossing (1968) summed it up like this: 'After graduating he spent two years in Canada and America, working as, successively, a university lecturer, Xerox operator, warehouseman, bookstore ...
Side 41
... York'. The lure of the US proved stronger. By late 1965, he had moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he stayed with poet friends from Dublin, the American poet Louis Asekoff and Eamon Grennan. Though he knocked around Harvard, his ...
... York'. The lure of the US proved stronger. By late 1965, he had moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he stayed with poet friends from Dublin, the American poet Louis Asekoff and Eamon Grennan. Though he knocked around Harvard, 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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