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Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} To Ireland I by Paul Muldoon To Ireland I by Paul Muldoon. Completing the CAPTCHA proves you are a human and gives you temporary access to the web property. What can I do to prevent this in the future? If you are on a personal connection, like at home, you can run an anti-virus scan on your device to make sure it is not infected with malware. If you are at an office or shared network, you can ask the network administrator to run a scan across the network looking for misconfigured or infected devices. Another way to prevent getting this page in the future is to use Privacy Pass. You may need to download version 2.0 now from the Chrome Web Store. Cloudflare Ray ID: 658987b4e91815f4 • Your IP : 188.246.226.140 • Performance & security by Cloudflare. Paul Muldoon. He read English at Queen's University, Belfast, where he was taught by Seamus Heaney. His first collection of poems, New Weather , was published in 1973, while he was still at university. He worked for the BBC in Belfast until 1986, before taking up a writer's residency at Cambridge University. He moved to the USA shortly afterwards to teach at Columbia and Princeton universities. He is Howard G.B. Clark Professor of the Humanities and Creative Writing at Princeton University. He became Professor of Poetry at Oxford in 1999, succeeding James Fenton, and is President of the Poetry Society in London.His poetry collections include Why Brownlee Left (1980), Quoof (1983), Madoc: A Mystery (1990), which won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, The Annals of Chile (1994), which includes an elegy to the artist Mary Farl Powers and won the T. S. Eliot Prize, and Hay (1998). New Selected Poems 1968-1994 (1996) won the Irish Times Irish Literature Prize for Poetry. He is editor of The Faber Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry (1986) and wrote the libretto for Shining Brow (1993), an opera about the life of the architect Frank Lloyd Wright with music by Daron Aric Hagen. He delivered the Oxford Clarendon Lectures in 1988, published as To Ireland, I (2000), and his translation of poems in Irish by Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill was published in The Astrakhan Cloak (1992). The End of the Poem: Oxford Lectures in Poetry (2006), contains the lectures he delivered during his tenure as Oxford Professor of Poetry. Moy Sand and Gravel (2002), was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize and won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.Paul Muldoon lives with his wife, the novelist Jean Hanff Korelitz, and their two children in the US. His tenth poetry collection, Horse Latitudes , was published in 2006 and in 2007, he became poetry editor of New Yorker magazine. His recent poetry collections include Plan B, illustrated by the photographer Norman McBeath (2009); Maggot (2010); and One Thousand Things Worth Knowing (2015), shortlisted for the Forward Poetry Prize for Best Collection. Critical perspective. Paul Muldoon has for many years been regarded as Northern Ireland’s greatest contemporary poet after Seamus Heaney. However, since Muldoon’s 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Moy Sand and Gravel (2002), many now consider him to be on a par with Heaney. Muldoon is both a playful and a serious poet, and his work as a whole incorporates a wide variety of themes and subject matter, both personal and political, historical and present-day. His collections usually consist of both short poems and extended narrative works, and most of his early collections end with a long poem. His work is well-known for its ingenious and mischievous word-play, and he also experiments with the lyric and the sonnet form. He includes Frost, MacNiece and Joyce among his influences. Muldoon’s first major collection was New Weather in 1973, when he was still in his early twenties. This was also the period in which the Northern Irish ‘Troubles’ re-ignited dramatically. New Weather was extremely well-received by critics and highly acclaimed by Seamus Heaney. Muldoon’s linguistic dexterity was immediately apparent, as was his wry humour and his talent for depicting Northern Irish violence in an oblique way, while also exploring personal issues - in fact, Muldoon often shows intimate personal issues as reflective of the wider world. Critics were also keen to link him to Heaney (who taught Muldoon at Queens University, Belfast), for both are Northern Irish poets from rural Catholic backgrounds. Muldoon’s second collection, Mules , was published in 1977. The title indicates his preoccupation in this collection: a mule is the offspring of a horse and a donkey, and these poems explore unlikely unions and juxtapositions. Muldoon’s mother had died in 1974, and Mules features many explorations of his relationship with his parents - this is something that was to become an ongoing theme in subsequent works. In this collection Muldoon continues to interlink personal matters with Northern Irish politics, and again this is something he treats obliquely. He is particularly interested in the role poetry has to play in politics and society, and the difficulties of depicting reality and ‘truth’ while also engaging in a creative and imaginative process: 'Look, son. Just look around you.People are getting themselves killedLeft, right and centreWhile you do what? Write rondeaux?' (Extract from ‘Lunch with Pancho Villa’) Bernard O’Donoghue notes that Muldoon’s early collections already embodied the qualities that pervaded his later works: '[He has] a lively storyteller’s wit combined with a crypticism that fascinates rather than defeats the reader. The subject matters on which these technical powers have borne have been distributed even-handedly between the private and public domains: the privacy of sexuality and family relations, and the public area of Northern Irish violence and tension. [And] common to all his writing is a cool and amused eye, wryly observant.' (Chevalier, Contemporary Poets , 1991) Muldoon is also noted for his sophisticated handling of poetic form and technique. His approach is both formal and informal, traditional and experimental: he makes use of the lyric poem and the traditional sonnet, but he plays with these forms and combines them with a style of language that is often quite colloquial and familiar. Most of his collections incorporate a diverse array of different forms and styles, along with an equally diverse collection of subject-matter. He is noted for his whimsical, tongue-in-cheek tone (he has described his own work as ‘whimful’), and for his innovative rhyming patterns. Muldoon’s work also abounds with obscure and archaic references and this, combined with his linguistic artfulness, has led some critics to regard his poetry as demanding and inaccessible. Others defend him against such claims: ‘The difficulty of locating the “feeling” in Muldoon’s poetry, of figuring out where he is coming from, is part of the experience of reading his work….’ (Clair Wills, Reading Paul Muldoon , 1998). Why Brownlee Left was published in 1980, and its title poem embodies Muldoon’s love of open-endedness, for he prefers to question and explore (often with irony and mischievous humour), and to suggest things for the reader to contemplate, rather than making explicit statements or attempting ‘answers’. The question of ‘Why Brownlee Left’ is indeed never answered: ‘Why Brownlee left, and where he went, / Is a mystery even now.’ This volume also contains ‘Immram’, the first of many long narrative poems which Muldoon was to write in subsequent years. Though he has always been highly skilled in the technical craft of poetry and linguistic play, he is also a storyteller: ‘I’m very interested in the narrative, the story, and in wanting almost to write novels in the poem. […] And I’m interested in the dramatic persona. I like using different characters, to present different views of the world’ (John Brown, In the Chair: Interviews with Poets from the North of Ireland, 2002). Quoof (1983), which includes one of Muldoon’s most well-known long poems, ‘The More a Man Has the More a Man Wants’, is often regarded as the most sophisticated of his early works. The word ‘quoof’ is the Muldoon family’s name for a hot water bottle, and throughout this volume Muldoon examines words and their subjectivity and unreliability. Though he does this with his usual mischievous humour, Quoof is also darker than his previous volumes, and explores Northern Irish violence and brutality more explicitly: 'Uncle Pat was telling us how the B-Specialshad stopped him one night somewhere near Ballygawleyand smashed his bicycle. and made him sing the Sash and curse the Pope of Rome.They held a pistol so hard against his foreheadthere was still the mark of an O when he got home.' (Extract from ‘The Sightseers’) Clair Wills notes the somewhat disturbing way that Muldoon links the personal and the political in this volume: ‘[It is] about how violence and brutality coexist with a sentimental vision of the family and the home, and may, indeed, be nurtured by it’ (Claire Wills, Reading Paul Muldoon , 1998). Meeting the British (1987) and Madoc: A Mystery (1990) were followed by The Annals of Chile (1994), which won the T.S. Eliot Prize. Clair Wills notes that The Annals of Chile has a strong female presence and also ‘narratives of birth and death’ (ibid). There is a sense of accepting the circular process of life: this volume contains two long elegies, ‘Incantata’, for Muldoon’s ex-lover Mary Farl Powers who died in 1993, and ‘Yarrow’, for his mother. Yet, while Muldoon explores bereavement and loss, he also writes movingly of welcoming new life with the birth of his daughter Dorothy.

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