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Derek Mahon Quotes
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 Derek Mahon (born 23 November 1941 ) is an Irish poet . Unsourced It's practically my subject, my theme: solitude and community; the weirdness and terrors of solitude: the stifling and consolations of community. Also, the consolations of solitude....


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Derek Mahon Information
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 Derek Mahon (born 23 November 1941) is a Northern Irish poet. He was born in Belfast, Northern...


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 Quadrant
Attention to feeling: Derek Mahon's past.
12/01/1997: 5,346 words, approx. 18 pages Derek Mahon's "Journalism: Selected Prose, 1970-1995" shows the poet's allegiance to the irony and his intrigue with the past. In the poems, "A Stone Age Figure Far Below," "The Last of the Fire Kings," "Heraclitus on Rivers," and "Death and the Sun" the past's...
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 New Criterion
Derek Mahon: exile & stranger.(Critical Essay)
09/01/1999: 3,565 words, approx. 12 pages The life and works of Irish poet Derek Mahon are examined. Topics discussed include Mahon's influences, his witty and hard-edged style, and several of his poems. Ireland over the past few decades has been the breeding ground for a dozen or so notable...



Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by John Redmond
8,346 words, approx. 28 pages
 In the following essay, Redmond compares Mahon's verse-letters to the work of W. H. Auden to highlight his use of a casual tone. Also drawing from Auden's essay on “Light Verse,” Redmond contends that Mahon's efforts to seem casual or self-effacing are undermined by their apparent artfulness.
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Critical Essay by Catriona Clutterbuck
7,866 words, approx. 26 pages
 In the following essay, Clutterbuck interprets Mahon's position on the link between art and reality as negative and sometimes cynical, doubting the existence of meaning in either art or life.
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Critical Essay by Peter Steele
7,218 words, approx. 24 pages
 In the following essay, Steele emphasizes Mahon's relationship to other poets and the role of art in his poetry.


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