'All Will Be Swept Away' - Dimensions of Elegy in the Poetry of Paul Muldoon

The book is the first study of Paul Muldoon's elegiac poetry. It covers virtually all of his elegies, showing how the elegiac attitude has underlain Muldoon's poetic development and shaped his aesthetics and formal developments, as it also demonstrates the extent to which Muldoon's elegies have transformed the genre

List of contents

Acknowledgments
List of abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1. Shared worlds, shared voices: the work of empathy in elegies for family and friends
Chapter 2. Vision and revision: paternal elegies
Chapter 3. Poetry and politics in elegies for poets and literati
Chapter 4. Mourning bare life: transnational elegies
Chapter 5. Tradition of defiance: Lamentations
Chapter 6. Between speech and silence: war elegies
Works cited
Index

About the author

Wit Pietrzak is Professor of British and Irish Literature at the Institute of English Studies, University of ¿ód¿, Poland. His main areas of interest are modernist and contemporary Anglophone poetry as well as theory and philosophy of literature. He has published The Critical Thought of W. B. Yeats and numerous essays on contemporary British and Irish poetry.

Summary

The book is the first study of Paul Muldoon’s elegiac poetry. It covers virtually all of his elegies, showing how the elegiac attitude has underlain Muldoon’s poetic development and shaped his aesthetics and formal developments, as it also demonstrates the extent to which Muldoon’s elegies have transformed the genre

Product details

• Authors: Wit Pietrzak, Pietrzak Wit
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.11.2022
• EAN: 9781032188188
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3218818-8
• No. of pages: 182
• Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Politics, PSYCHOLOGY / Grief & Loss, Ireland, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Literary studies: from c 2000