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Leading Irish poet Derek Mahon has written some of the key poems of our age. In this landmark study, Hugh Haughton opens up Mahon's work before our eyes, balancing critical overview with illuminating close readings. It will be come to be seen not only as the standard work on Mahon but as one of the critical cornerstones for the understanding of Northern Irish poetry. - ;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,

Mahon, Derek, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Northern Ireland --- In literature.

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Derek Mahon, born in Belfast in 1942, 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 and craft of poetry, and to forging a poetic idiom pitched against the realities of modernity. He has also been a committed reviser of his work, believing the poem to be more than a completed record in verse, but a work of art never finished. This virtuoso study by Hugh Haughton provides a comprehensive account of Mahon's oeuvre, in the context of Northern Irish writing and modern poetry more generally. Haughton's brilliant writing always serves and illuminates the poetry, yielding extraordinary insights on almost every page. The poetry, his revisions and reception, are its subject, but the book also offers a compelling intellectual biography of the poet and an account of Irish poetry vital to our understanding of the times.

820 "19" MAHON, HUGH --- Engelse literatuur--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999--MAHON, HUGH --- Mahon, Derek (1941-....) --- Critique et interprétation

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This book provides the first overview of classical presences in Anglophone Irish poetry after 1960. Featuring detailed studies of Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley, Derek Mahon, and Eavan Boland, including close readings of key poems, it highlights the evolution of Irish poetic engagements with Greece and Rome in the last sixty years. It outlines the contours of a ‘movement’ which has transformed Irish poetry and accompanied its transition from a postcolonial to a transnational model, from sporadic borrowings of images and myths in the poets’ early attempts to define their own voices, to the multiplication of classical adaptations since the late 1980s -- at first at a time of personal and political crises, notably in Northern Ireland, and more recently, as manifestations of the poets’ engagements with European and other foreign literatures.

Poetry --- English literature --- Literature --- Classical literature --- Klassieke literatuur --- literatuur --- poëzie --- Engelse literatuur --- Boland, Eavan --- Heaney, Seamus --- Longley, Michael --- Mahon, Derek --- anno 1900-1999 --- Great Britain --- Ireland

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This book explores the perception of modern Greek landscape and poetry in the writings of Seamus Heaney and Derek Mahon. Delving into travel writing, ecocriticism, translation and allusion, it offers a fresh comparative link between Greek modernity and Irish poetry that counterbalances the preeminence of Greek antiquity in existing criticism. The first section, devoted to travel and landscape, examines Mahon’s modern perception of the Aegean, inspired by his travels to the Cyclades between 1974 and 1997, as well as Heaney’s philhellenic relationship with mainland Greece between 1995 and 2004. The second section offers a close analysis of their C. P. Cavafy translations, and compares George Seferis’ original texts with their creative rendition in the writings of the Irish poets. The book will appeal to readers of poetry as well as those interested in the interactions between Ireland and Greece, two countries at the extreme points of Europe, in times of crisis.

Literature. --- Comparative literature. --- Literature, Modern --- Poetry. --- European literature. --- British literature. --- British and Irish Literature. --- European Literature. --- Twentieth-Century Literature. --- Poetry and Poetics. --- Comparative Literature. --- European literature --- Literature --- Comparative literature --- Literature, Comparative --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- Poems --- Poetry --- Verses (Poetry) --- 20th century. --- History and criticism --- Philosophy --- Philology --- Authors --- Authorship --- English poetry --- Irish authors --- History and criticism. --- Heaney, Seamus, --- Mahon, Derek, --- Cavafy, Constantine, --- Seferis, George, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Sepherēs, Geōrgos, --- Σεφερης, Γεωργος, --- Seferiadis, George, --- Sepherēs, Giōrgos, --- Σεφερης, Γιωργος, --- Sepheris, Giorgos, --- Seferis, Jorge, --- Séféris, Georges, --- Seferis, Yorgos, --- Seferis, Giorgos, --- Seferiadis, Giorgos, --- Seferis, Iorgos, --- Seféris, Jiórgos, --- Sepheriadēs, Geōrgios, --- Σεφεριαδης, Γεωργιος, --- Seferis, Giorgio, --- Szeferisz, Jorgosz, --- Seferisu, Yorugosu, --- Seferis, Georgios, --- Seferis, Ghiorghios, --- Seferis, Jorgos, --- ספריס, גיאורגוס --- Sepheriadēs, Giōrgos, --- Σεφεριαδης, Γιωργος, --- Trelos, Ignatēs, --- Cavafy, C. P. --- Cavafy, Constantine P., --- Kavafis, Konstantin, --- Cavafis, Constantinos, --- Kavaphēs, Kōnstantinos Petrou, --- Kavafis, Konstantinos Petrou, --- Kavafis, Constantino, --- Kavafis, --- Kavafis, Konstandinos, --- Kavaphēs, K. P. --- Kavafis, K. P. --- Cavafy, Constantin, --- Kavafis, Konstantino, --- Kawafis, --- Cavafis, C. P., --- Kavafy, Konstantine, --- Καβάφης, Κωνσταντίνος, --- Chēny, Seimous, --- Khini, Sheĭmas, --- Heaney, Seamus --- Literature, Modern-20th century. --- Literature, Modern—20th century.