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Paul Muldoon: Critical Essays (Liverpool University Press - Liverpool English Texts & Studies)

By Tim Kendall , Peter McDonald

Book information

Year
2004
ISBN
0853238685, 9780853238683, 0853238782, 9780853238782, 9781846313745
LCC
PR6063.U367 Z84 2004
Open Library ID
OL22586235M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2098102 bytes)
Pages
224\201
Topic
Education
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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 contributors, even in the degree to which they bring to light areas of disagreement about Muldoon’s strengths and weaknesses, continue a conversation about what poems (and poets) can tell us.

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