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| Named Person: | Derek Mahon; Derek Mahon; Derek Mahon; Derek Mahon; Derek Mahon |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Hugh Haughton |
| ISBN: | 9780199215447 0199215448 |
| OCLC Number: | 123113539 |
| Description: | vii, 402 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | 1. Introduction : the poetics of home -- 2. Forging an identity : 'Night-crossing' -- 3. The ironic conscience : 'Lives' -- 4. The poetry of afterlives : 'The snow party' -- 5. Writing crisis : 'The sea in winter' -- 6. The time of exile : 'The hunt by night' and 'Antarctica' -- 7. Poet in New York : 'The Hudson letter' -- 8. 'The yellow book' and the 'Fin de siècle' -- 9. A new wave : 'Harbour lights.' |
| Responsibility: | Hugh Haughton. |
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'The Poetry of Derek Mahon' is the model of what a book on a single poet ought to be. Lucy McDiarmid, Times Literary Supplement With its bibliographical thoroughness, attention to biography, manuscripts friendships, and politics, its coverage of Mahon's jounralism, reviews and translations as well as the poetry, and its extended close readings The Poetry of Derek Mahon is the model of what a book on a single poet out to be Lucy McDiarmid, Times Literary Supplement ...a valuable book of evidence about one of the most gifted and complex poets of his generation that no one wil be able, in future debates, to ignore. Fran Brearton The Review of English Studies generous, intelligent, lucidly written, bright and brimming with insights and information... [a] welcome, admirably achieved book Eamon Grennan, Irish Times excellently done... exact and unpretentious criticism. Literary Review The study as a whole is a masterpiece of overview combined with detailed attention. I have no doubt that it will come to be seen as not merely the standard work on Mahon, but one of the critical cornerstones for the understanding both of Northern Irish Poetry and of contemporary poetry in English in general, on both sides of the Atlantic. Bernard O'Donoghue Read more...
