Paul Muldoon [electronic resource] : Critical Essays
Kendall, Tim.
McDonald, Peter.
Liverpool : Liverpool University Press,
2004.
The essays in this book testify to the fascination of Paul Muldoon's poems, and also to their underlying contentiousness. The contributors see Muldoon from many different angles - biographical, formal, literary-historical, generic - but also direct attention to complex moments of creativity in which an extraordinary amount of originality is concentrated, and on the clarity of which a lot depends. In their different ways, all of the essays return to the question of what a poem can 'tell' us, whether about its author, about itself, or about the world in which it comes into being. The contributor
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Title Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; 'Thirteen or Fourteen': Paul Muldoon's Poetics of Adolescence; Never Quite Showing his Hand: Robert Frost and Paul Muldoon; For Father Read Mother: Muldoon's Antecedents; Pax Hibernica/Pax Americana: Rhyme and Reconciliation in Muldoon; Muldoon and Pragmatism; 'All That': Muldoon and the Vanity of Interpretation; Paul Muldoon's Transits: Muddling Through after Madoc; 'All Art is a Collaboration': Paul Muldoon as Librettist; Muldoon's Remains; Index
The essays in this book testify to the fascination of Paul Muldoon's poems, and also to their underlying contentiousness. The contributors see Muldoon from many different angles - biographical, formal, literary-historical, generic - but also direct attention to complex moments of creativity in which an extraordinary amount of originality is concentrated, and on the clarity of which a lot depends. In their different ways, all of the essays return to the question of what a poem can 'tell' us, whether about its author, about itself, or about the world in which it comes into being. The contributor
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Muldoon, Paul
Muldoon, Paul.
English
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English Literature