Faber Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry Paul Muldoon

Name: Faber Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry By Paul Muldoon
SKU: 9780571137619
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Faber Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry by Paul Muldoon

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Taking the death of Yeats in 1939 as its starting point, this anthology features selections from the work of ten Irish poets, including Patrick Kavanagh, Louis MacNeice, Thomas Kinsella, John Montague, Seamus Heaney, and Michael Longley.

Faber Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry Summary

Faber Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry by Paul Muldoon

Taking the death of Yeats as its starting point and ending at the present day, The Faber Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry offers unusually generous selections from the work of ten writers - Patrick Kavanagh, Louis Mac Niece, Thomas Kinsella, John Montague, Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley, Derek Mahon, Paul Durcan, Tom Paulin and Medbh McGuckian - the most consistently impressive Irish poets after Yeats.The editor, Paul Muldoon, is the author of seven collections of poems and an opera libretto, Shining Brow. He is widely regarded as the leading Irish poet of his generation.

About Paul Muldoon

Paul Muldoon was born in County Armagh in 1951. He read English at Queen's University, Belfast, and published his first collection of poems, New Weather, in 1973. He is the author of ten books of poetry, including Moy Sand and Gravel (2002), for which he received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and Horse Latitudes (2006). Since 1987 he has lived in the United States, where he is the Howard G. B. Clark Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University. From 1999 to 2004 he was Professor of Poetry at Oxford University. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Paul Muldoon was given an American Academy of Arts and Letters award in 1996. Other recent awards include the 1994 T. S. Eliot Prize, the 1997 Irish Times Poetry Prize, and the 2003 Griffin Prize.

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Sku

GOR001892841

ISBN 13

9780571137619

ISBN 10

057113761X

Title

Faber Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry by Paul Muldoon

Author

Paul Muldoon

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Faber & Faber

Year published

19860526

Number of pages

416

Prizes

N/A

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