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'Sententious solitude'? Figures of the poet in the work of Derek Mahon
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posted on 2023-06-07, 21:41 authored by Martin RyleDerek Mahon is discussed as a poet who - like Louis MacNeice - addresses public themes in a distinctively personal idiom. The main focus is on three poems: 'Ovid in Tomis', 'Going Home' and 'An Bonnan Bui'. Mahon suggests the necessarily complex and self-divided nature of poetic utterance, which is bound up with and depends on forms of exile and self-exile.
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- Published
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University of GdanskBook title
Here/Now-Then/There: Traditions, Memory, Innovation in Modern British and Irish Poetry: Essays on Modern British and Irish Poetry, 5ISBN
9788373268319Department affiliated with
- English Publications
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