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 26
... recalls his review of Solstices where he said MacNeice's 'world is what he has experienced with his five fairly well-developed senses and a circumspect urbanised mind'.23 It would not be until 'In Carrowdore Churchyard,' published in ...
... recalls his review of Solstices where he said MacNeice's 'world is what he has experienced with his five fairly well-developed senses and a circumspect urbanised mind'.23 It would not be until 'In Carrowdore Churchyard,' published in ...
Side 36
... recalls Sophocles' Antigone but earlier poetry in English. There are two alliterative lines ('Wonders are many and ... recall the origins of English verse. 'White linen'remembers the linen industry upon which Belfast was founded, the ...
... recalls Sophocles' Antigone but earlier poetry in English. There are two alliterative lines ('Wonders are many and ... recall the origins of English verse. 'White linen'remembers the linen industry upon which Belfast was founded, the ...
Side 37
... recall Viking and other early invaders as well as the Belfast shipyards. In associating saints and heroes with 'conspiring seas', Mahon alludes not only to early historical visitors such as St Patrick, but the successful UVF gun-running ...
... recall Viking and other early invaders as well as the Belfast shipyards. In associating saints and heroes with 'conspiring seas', Mahon alludes not only to early historical visitors such as St Patrick, but the successful UVF gun-running ...
Side 38
... recalls that he, Mahon, and Heaney paid a visit to Carrowdore, where, after signing the visitors' book, they each left 'hoping to write an elegy'.46 A few weeks later they met up in Longley's flat in Belfast, where Mahon read his 'now ...
... recalls that he, Mahon, and Heaney paid a visit to Carrowdore, where, after signing the visitors' book, they each left 'hoping to write an elegy'.46 A few weeks later they met up in Longley's flat in Belfast, where Mahon read his 'now ...
Side 39
... recalls MacNeice's 'Snow', where a bay-window is 'Spawning snow and pink roses against it', and the poet experiences the 'incorrigibly plural' nature of life. The references to the 'bombed-out town' and the 'all-clear' recall MacNeice's ...
... recalls MacNeice's 'Snow', where a bay-window is 'Spawning snow and pink roses against it', and the poet experiences the 'incorrigibly plural' nature of life. The references to the 'bombed-out town' and the 'all-clear' recall MacNeice's ...
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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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