Tinley, Bill (1994) "Harmonies and Disharmonies": Derek Mahon's Francophile Poetics. Irish University Review, 24 (1). pp. 80-95.

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Derek Mahon's poetry is strikingly electric. His work is formally adroit, philosophically and politically aware, intellectually and emotionally shot through with a wide and sympathetic knowledge of international and, in particular, European art. Mahon has produced fine versions of Horace, Ovid and Pasternak;"Courtyards in Dreft" is a meditation on a painting by de Hooch while many of his best poems engage the work of such figures as Hamsun, Hopper, Brecht, Uccello, Munch and Wittgenstein. Yet, for practical and temperamental reasons, the art and literature of France exercise the most enduring and substantial influence on Mahon's poetry

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	Harmonies; Disharmonies; Derek Mahon; Francophile Poetics;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Arts,Celtic Studies and Philosophy > School of English, Media & Theatre Studies
Item ID:	837
Depositing User:	Bill Tinley
Date Deposited:	18 Dec 2007
Journal or Publication Title:	Irish University Review
Publisher:	Irish University Review
Refereed:	Yes
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Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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