- Hardcover: 432 pages
- Publisher: Faber and Faber (5 Oct 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0571227406
- ISBN-13: 978-0571227402
- Product Dimensions: 22.8 x 15.6 x 3.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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"'A major poet, Muldoon continues to outshine his contemporaries.' Stephen Knight, Independent on Sunday 'The meaning and the impact of the poems unfurl and resound slowly but surely, poignantly and eloquently'. William Boyd, Guardian"
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The End of the Poem contains the fifteen lectures delivered by Paul Muldoon during his tenure as Oxford Professor of Poetry, from 1999 to 2004. Rather than individual and discreet performances, these lectures form a dazzling set of variations around the sustained theme of 'the end of the poem'.
Each lecture explores a different sense of an ending: whether a poem can ever be a free-standing structure, read and written in isolation from other poems; whether a poem's line-endings are forms of closure (and where this might leave the poem in prose); whether the poem is completed only with the reader's act of understanding; whether there is an 'end' in 'gender', and if poems have political ends; whether a poem may be completed - as opposed to undone - by the act of translation from one language to another; whether revision brings a poem nearer to its ideal ending (when does a poet know when a poem has come to an end?); finally, what is the right true end of poetry, and is the end of the poem the beginning of criticism, including an Arnoldian 'criticism of life'.
Each lecture focuses upon an individual poem, with examples mostly drawn from twentieth century poets such as Yeats, Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, Stevie Smith, Lowell, Marianne Moore - with a notable emphasis on European poets such as Pessoa, Tsvetayeva and Montale.
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is not the us telling them
but rather the them of us
the reverse of which is of course time
a fifteen minutes of not telling
how it ends now ends
in the illimitable ending of
thiis an ending but there
no exceptions no there
are in strict time stars and
the strictest us are accurate
without knowing are where there
are such a world thousands
of and us such change explosions
hundreds of explanations and
again and a time for points in
the first place sky and letting
this be known somehow in heaven
telling of how it really is and
was and a thopusand of this days
a letting of this surely in reverse
a certain charm and dissolution
but surely is not the ending and
limited reviewing
is not the us telling them
but rather the them of us
the reverse of which is of course time
a fifteen minutes of not telling
how it ends now ends
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17 Mar 2007
Format:Hardcover
This book is a collection of 15 lectures given by Mr. Paul Muldoon at Oxford England. Each lecture is dedicated to the presentation and analyses of one poem by one poet. All of these are well know favorites: ALL SOULS' NIGHT,W.B. Yeats, THE MOUNTAIN, Robert Frost, POETRY, Marian Moore, DOVER BEACH, Mathew Arnold, etc. Muldoon's presentations are fine samples of inventiveness, good taste, hyperbole, literary allusion, daring defragmentation and impeccable research. The author's innumerable literary allusion and quotation of hundreds of other poetic fragments, turn the book into a poetic potpourri, a "Journey into June" with poetry and poets. Very entertaining.
Interested in what poets try to do? Read these lectures!
8 Dec 2009
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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 lecture on each poet, he has chosen to focus for analysis on one particular poem by that poet. The text of the chosen poem is the first item presented in each lacture. Muldoon then shows how that poet has made use of a variety of skills to create the poem. Choice of individual words, of figures of speech, of idioms, of phrases, of evocative references to times, places, experiences, and references in this specimen poem to other poems -- all are considered. Muldoon helps his audience to come to an understanding of how each particular poet drew on these elements, and on others, to choose his colors, to spin his own yarn for weaving, and then the pattern, and then to weave the fabric of his particular poem.
The lectures can be read separately, focusing on the work of the poet or poets of one's choice. But the reader will soon discover that in each successive lecture following the first one Muldoon makes reference to some of the points he has made in his earlier lectures. Thus Muldoon is proceeding to make a construct of his own out of the whole of the fifteen lectures. To understand this construct wholly, one must read and think about how each later Muldoon lecture builds upon what Muldoon has presented earlier in the lecture series. Thus, if you think about it, Muldoon has woven this whole piece of work together much in the way that he has shown us a poet builds a poem.
This isn't surprising, for Muldoon remained a poet, hmself, even as he put this series of lectures together. So this lecture series may be viewed as itself being a poetical form of analysis, by Muldoon, of the work of the fifteen poets examined. The lecture series may be considered as a tapestry woven by Muldoon out of the weaving materials he has prepared from what he has found in his analysis of the work of the fifteen poets who are the subjects of his lectures.
These lectures are worth your time to read and to consider.
The lectures can be read separately, focusing on the work of the poet or poets of one's choice. But the reader will soon discover that in each successive lecture following the first one Muldoon makes reference to some of the points he has made in his earlier lectures. Thus Muldoon is proceeding to make a construct of his own out of the whole of the fifteen lectures. To understand this construct wholly, one must read and think about how each later Muldoon lecture builds upon what Muldoon has presented earlier in the lecture series. Thus, if you think about it, Muldoon has woven this whole piece of work together much in the way that he has shown us a poet builds a poem.
This isn't surprising, for Muldoon remained a poet, hmself, even as he put this series of lectures together. So this lecture series may be viewed as itself being a poetical form of analysis, by Muldoon, of the work of the fifteen poets examined. The lecture series may be considered as a tapestry woven by Muldoon out of the weaving materials he has prepared from what he has found in his analysis of the work of the fifteen poets who are the subjects of his lectures.
These lectures are worth your time to read and to consider.
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