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Derel Mahon: The Dream Play

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The Dream Play

Collected Poems (see above) 

282

Allusion to classical place Elysian fields

Classical/post-Classical intertexts Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream is the main inspiration for the poem; ‘Elysian fields’ meld into the magical myth tableau.

Derek Mahon