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 13
... called A Pageant of English Verse', which started with 'Summer is icumen in' and finished with 'Fern Hill'. 'It was that book that did it for me', he says, 'and the first poem that really turned me on—aside from hymns—was “The Stolen ...
... called A Pageant of English Verse', which started with 'Summer is icumen in' and finished with 'Fern Hill'. 'It was that book that did it for me', he says, 'and the first poem that really turned me on—aside from hymns—was “The Stolen ...
Side 14
... called 'Like Dolmens Round My Childhood'. It was only much later he became aware of a 'whole community of poets scattered around Ireland, and increasingly the North of Ireland'.34 Though he casts his teenage self in an ironic light ...
... called 'Like Dolmens Round My Childhood'. It was only much later he became aware of a 'whole community of poets scattered around Ireland, and increasingly the North of Ireland'.34 Though he casts his teenage self in an ironic light ...
Side 21
... called Northern Irish Renaissance, he should also be seen as part of the Dublin Literary Renaissance of the 60s. It was his exposure to the heady, creative and alcoholic ferment of the Irish capital, immersion in French literature, and ...
... called Northern Irish Renaissance, he should also be seen as part of the Dublin Literary Renaissance of the 60s. It was his exposure to the heady, creative and alcoholic ferment of the Irish capital, immersion in French literature, and ...
Side 24
... called them 'two poetic conservatives | In the city of guns and knives', they were from the outset very different.14 Poetry thrives on dialogue, and the exchange of poems, gossip, criticism, and jokes between the two of them proved ...
... called them 'two poetic conservatives | In the city of guns and knives', they were from the outset very different.14 Poetry thrives on dialogue, and the exchange of poems, gossip, criticism, and jokes between the two of them proved ...
Side 25
... called into question one another's own'. There she represents him carrying his 'clever discontent' into 'this city of largess', 'Gathering | In a rag tied to a stick, all in confusion, | Dublin reverence and Belfast irony'. If the poem ...
... called into question one another's own'. There she represents him carrying his 'clever discontent' into 'this city of largess', 'Gathering | In a rag tied to a stick, all in confusion, | Dublin reverence and Belfast irony'. If the poem ...
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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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