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The End of the Poem: Oxford Lectures
Paul Muldoon
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Description for The End of the Poem: Oxford Lectures
Paperback. Contains the fifteen lectures delivered by Paul Muldoon as Oxford Professor of Poetry, from 1999 to 2004. This title focuses on the theme 'the end of the poem'. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 216 x 135 x 23. Weight in Grams: 446.
The End of the Poem contains the fifteen lectures delivered by Paul Muldoon as Oxford Professor of Poetry, from 1999 to 2004. Rather than individual and discrete performances, these lectures form a dazzling set of variations around the sustained theme of 'the end of the poem'. Each lecture explores a different sense of an ending: whether a poem can ever be a free-standing structure, read and written in isolation from other poems; whether a poem's line-endings are forms of closure (and where this might leave the poem in prose); whether the poem is completed only with the reader's act of ... Read more
The End of the Poem contains the fifteen lectures delivered by Paul Muldoon as Oxford Professor of Poetry, from 1999 to 2004. Rather than individual and discrete performances, these lectures form a dazzling set of variations around the sustained theme of 'the end of the poem'. Each lecture explores a different sense of an ending: whether a poem can ever be a free-standing structure, read and written in isolation from other poems; whether a poem's line-endings are forms of closure (and where this might leave the poem in prose); whether the poem is completed only with the reader's act of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571240814
SKU
9780571240814
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About Paul Muldoon
Paul Muldoon is the author of fifteen collections of poetry, including Moy Sand and Gravel, for which he received the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Among his other awards are the 1994 T. S. Eliot Prize, the 2003 Griffin Prize, the 2015 Pigott Prize, and the 2017 Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. Born in County Armagh in 1951, he has ... Read more
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