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Paul Muldoon (b. 1951) is a Northern Irish poet. Muldoon's poetry is known for difficulty, allusion, casual use of extremely obscure or archaic words, understated wit, punning, and deft technique in meter and slant-rhyme. Muldoon has lived in the United States since 1987; he teaches at Princeton University. He held the chair of Professor of Poetry at Oxford University for the five-year term 1999-2004. Until recently Muldoon was often thought of as the second-most-eminent living Northern Irish poet, living in the shadow of his friend Seamus Heaney. Since he won the Pulitzer Prize his reputation has grown: his work clearly stands on its own merits.
In 2003 Muldoon was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in poetry. His other honors include fellowships in the Royal Society of Literature and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the 1994 T. S. Eliot Prize, the 1997 Irish Times Poetry Prize, and the 2003 Griffin International Prize for Excellence in PoetryThe Griffin Poetry Prize is Canada's youngest and most lucrative poetry award. It was founded in 2000 by Scott Griffin, a wealthy automotive part manufacturer. The awards go to one Canadian and one international poet who write in the English language..
1 Works
In 2003, Muldoon's published books were:
- New Weather ( 1973Events January events January 1 United Kingdom, Ireland, and Denmark enter the European Economic Community now known as the European Union January 3 Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) sells the New York Yankees for $10 million to a 12-person syndicate led)
- Mules ( 1977For the album by Ash, see 1977 (album). Events January 1 First woman Episcopal priest ordained January 6 EMI sacks the Sex Pistols January 18 Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious " legionnaire's disease" Januar)
- Why Brownlee Left ( 19801980 is a leap year starting on Tuesday. Events January-February January 1- April 1 National steel strike in United Kingdom January 1 Changes to the Swedish Act of Succession creates Victoria of Sweden, Crown Princess over her younger brother January 5 He)
- Quoof ( 1983Events January January 1 Beat Raaflaub became Basel Boys Choir's new conductor January 1 the ARPANET officially changes to use the Internet Protocol, creating the Internet. January 1 compulsory wearing of seat belts becomes law in the UK. January 2 The mu)
- Meeting the British ( 1987)
- Selected Poems 1968-1986 ( 1987)
- Madoc: A Mystery ( 1990)
- The Annals of Chile ( 1994)
- Hay ( 1998)
- Poems 1968-1998 ( 2001)
- Moy Sand and Gravel ( 2002)
Most of these volumes were collections of shorter poems. Several, including Meeting the British and The Annals of Chile, contained collected shorter poems and one longer work.
Madoc: A Mystery, among Muldoon's most difficult work, is a book-length poem, which some consider Muldoon's masterpiece. It narrates in fractured sections an alternate history in which Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey come to America in order to found a utopian community. (The poets had, in reality, discussed but never undertaken this journey.)
2 External links
Paul Muldoon's official Web site
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