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About the Author
Hugh Haughton was born in Cork, and is currently Senior Lecturer in English at the University of York. He has published widely on modern poetry and has edited many books, including The Chatto Book of Nonsense Poetry (1988), Second World War Poems (2004), and Freud's The Uncanny. He is co-editor (with Valerie Eliot) of The Letters of T. S. Eliot.
Reviews
Review from previous edition With its bibliographical thoroughness, attention to biography, manuscripts friendships, and politics, its coverage of Mahon's journalism, 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 *
Book Information
ISBN 9780199592623
Author Hugh Haughton
Format Paperback
Page Count 414
Imprint Oxford University Press
Publisher Oxford University Press
Weight(grams) 716g
Dimensions(mm) 234mm * 157mm * 21mm