
In The End of the Poem, Paul Muldoon dazzlingly explores a diverse group of poems, from Yeats's "All Souls' Night" to Stevie Smith's "I Remember" to Fernando Pessoa's "Autopsychography." Muldoon reminds us that the word "poem" comes, via French, from the Latin and Greek: "a thing made or created." He asks: Can a poem ever be a free-standing structure, or must it always interface with the whole of ...
Paperback: 416 pages
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 1st edition (August 21, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0374531005
ISBN-13: 978-0374531003
Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.9 x 8.5 inches
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These fine lectures, given at Oxford over a period of years by Paul Muldoon, are very worthwhile to read now as essays on the art of poetry as used and developed by fifteen different well-known poets, each in his or her own way. For Muldoon's lectur...
s bibliography―and biography? Muldoon explores the boundlessness created by influence, what Robert Frost meant when he insisted that "the way to read a poem in prose or verse is in the light of all the other poems ever written."Finally, Muldoon returns to the most fruitful, and fraught, aspect of the phrase "the end of the poem": the interpretation that centers on the "aim" or "function" of a poem, and the question of whether or not the end of the poem is the beginning of criticism. Irreverent and deeply learned, The End of the Poem is a vigorous approach to looking at poetry anew.