The End of the Poem

by Paul Muldoon

Book Overview

In The End of the Poem , Paul Muldoon, "the most significant English-language poet born since the Second World War" ( The Times Literary Supplement ), presents engaging, rigorous, and insightful explorations of a diverse group of poems, from Yeats's "All Souls' Night" to Stevie Smith's "I Remember" to Fernando Pessoa's "Autopsychography." Here Muldoon reminds us that the word "poem" comes, via French, from the Latin and Greek: "a thing made or created."...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374148104
• ISBN13: 9780374148102
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
• Length: 406 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.6" x 9.2"