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 14
... never heard of, one John Montague, with a poem 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 ...
... never heard of, one John Montague, with a poem 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 ...
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... never far away. In 'The Sea in Winter' (CP 116) he describes the North as 'un beau pays mal habité' and 'Death and the Sun' traces parallels between the career of Camus, with his roots in French colonial Algeria and his own, with its ...
... never far away. In 'The Sea in Winter' (CP 116) he describes the North as 'un beau pays mal habité' and 'Death and the Sun' traces parallels between the career of Camus, with his roots in French colonial Algeria and his own, with its ...
Side 21
... never went again'.2 It was actually in the Bohemian Dublin of the 1960s that Mahon forged his identity as a poet in the company of other budding poets at Trinity College, including Longley, Brendan Kennelly, and Eavan Boland. The title ...
... never went again'.2 It was actually in the Bohemian Dublin of the 1960s that Mahon forged his identity as a poet in the company of other budding poets at Trinity College, including Longley, Brendan Kennelly, and Eavan Boland. The title ...
Side 26
... never republished, the poem recognizes the kind of social world Larkin had annexed in England, but in an Irish context. Its reference to the 'five other senses' recalls his review of Solstices where he said MacNeice's 'world is what he ...
... never republished, the poem recognizes the kind of social world Larkin had annexed in England, but in an Irish context. Its reference to the 'five other senses' recalls his review of Solstices where he said MacNeice's 'world is what he ...
Side 27
... Never otherwise', with its Gravesian title and Gunn-like tone, is a case in point. He imagines a neighbour steering 'his woman like a truck | Down the clear highway of his double bed' and represents her denying 'the accepted code ...
... Never otherwise', with its Gravesian title and Gunn-like tone, is a case in point. He imagines a neighbour steering 'his woman like a truck | Down the clear highway of his double bed' and represents her denying 'the accepted code ...
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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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