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1. Derek Mahon's Poetry of Belonging

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Shields, Kathleen

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The answer to the rhetorical question posed in the above epigraph is clearly "no one". "Beyond Howth Head" sets up a clear polarity between "self-knowledge" on the one hand and "prelapsarian metaphor" on the other.l But in Mahon's work as a whole the individual's pursuit of artistic statement can not so easily be wrested from collective history. Self-knowledge and prelapsarian metaphor can not be exchanged unproblematically. Rather, the "ironic conscience" uses metaphor to propose a brief continuity between the antithetical categories of self-knowledge and home and then destroys the metaphor to separate the categories again. It is this sticking point which can give a clue to the question of belonging as it is expressed in Mahon's poems. By not completely separating art and history, himself and his people, Mahon professes some kind of allegiance - no matter how muCh he qualifies it - to the idea of an overlap between these antithetical areas.

Published
1994

2. Derek Mahon's Nerval

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Shields, Kathleen and Shields, Kathleen

Abstract

The Northern Irish poet Derek Mahon published in 1982 a version of Gerard de Nerval's sonnet sequence Les Chimares, Nerval's best-known work both inside and outside France. In the English-speaking world there is a tradition of translating this sequence which began with the symbolist poet Arthur Symons. In this tradition Nerval is presented as a strange bohemian, a 'fol délicieux', or as a type of poète maudit? Mahon's text does not allude in any way to this tradition, or to the quotation of Nerval by English-language poets like Eliot in The Waste Land. Instead it appears as a fresh translation aimed at a public unfamiliar with Nerval. But there is another tradition which Mahon's Irish public would recognize, and this is the wealth of translations and Versions' which Irish poets publish as part of the body of their work...

Published
1995

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