Paul Muldoon
Paul Muldoon
</gallery> Paul Muldoonis an Irish poet. He has published over thirty collections and won a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the T. S. Eliot Prize. He held the post of Oxford Professor of Poetry from 1999 to 2004. At Princeton University he is both the Howard G. B. Clark '21 Professor in the Humanities and Founding Chair of the Lewis Center for the Arts. He has also served as president of the Poetry Society and Poetry Editor at The New...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth20 June 1951
structure quartets seems
It seems to me the structure of the Quartets is too imposed
writing littles i-can
There's very little of the intentional about the business of writing poetry, as least as far as I can see.
doe littles crops
That's one of the great things about poetry; one realises that one does one's little turn - that you're just part of the great crop, as it were
doors welcome reason
I suppose for whatever reason I actively welcome being put down, something which perhaps goes back to my upbringing - that accusation of not being worthy which could be laid at one's door.
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Form is a straitjacket in the way that a straitjacket was a straitjacket for Houdini,
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The center only exists in a metaphysical sense at the moment. There are no bricks and mortar involved now. And indeed, in a strange way, I'm rather glad that it's not related to a specific building; in some way, I don't think it ever can be. I think there's going to be an expansion and a consolidation so that arts aren't ghettoized in a single building, but can instead interact across the campus.