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To Ireland, I (Clarendon Lectures in English)
Paul Muldoon
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In To Ireland, I , the Clarendon Lectures in English 1998, Paul Muldoon produces a firework display of scholarship, wit, and intrigue, in an idiosyncratic wander through the alphabet of Irish literature. From a mischievous beginning in Amergin DS, the first poet of IrelandDS, Muldoon forges link after link between the disparate and the unlikely, until modernists and medievalists appear as congenial neighbours on the half-lit, literary streets of Ireland. From Beckett and Bowen, through MacNeice, Swift, and Yeats DS and ever-guided by Joyce DS, To Ireland, I tiptoes through the long grass of Irish writing, pirouetting ... Read more
In To Ireland, I , the Clarendon Lectures in English 1998, Paul Muldoon produces a firework display of scholarship, wit, and intrigue, in an idiosyncratic wander through the alphabet of Irish literature. From a mischievous beginning in Amergin DS, the first poet of IrelandDS, Muldoon forges link after link between the disparate and the unlikely, until modernists and medievalists appear as congenial neighbours on the half-lit, literary streets of Ireland. From Beckett and Bowen, through MacNeice, Swift, and Yeats DS and ever-guided by Joyce DS, To Ireland, I tiptoes through the long grass of Irish writing, pirouetting ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Number of Pages
158
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198184751
SKU
KEX0293312
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99-1
About Paul Muldoon
Paul Muldoon is Oxford Professor of Poetry and the Howard G. B. Clark Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University.
Reviews for To Ireland, I (Clarendon Lectures in English)
Some poets who turn their hand to criticism adopt a sober academic guise, as if to atone for their verbal transgressions. Paul Muldoon is not one of them. Clair Wills Muldoon's kind of word-weaving is a joy to behold ... It is refreshing to read this tricksy collection of four lectures delivered by the current Professor of Poetry at ... Read more