Further Reading
- Batten, Guinn, “He Could Barely Tell One from the Other: The Borderline Disorders of Paul Muldoon's Poetry,” South Atlantic Quarterly 95, no. 1 (winter 1996): 171-204. (Batten examines Muldoon's ambiguous linguistic and metaphorical evocation of parental authority and sexuality, psychic loss, and the mournful search for allusive family and cultural origins in The Annals of Chile.)
- Birkerts, Sven, “The State of Poetry,” Partisan Review 55, no. 3 (summer 1988): 484-89. (Birkerts praises the development of Muldoon's poetry in Selected Poems: 1968-1986.)
- Coffey, Michael, “Don't Look Back,” Village Voice (8 September 1998): 133. (Coffey evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of Hay.)
- Disch, Thomas M., “The Occasion of the Poem,” Poetry 160, no. 2 (May 1992): 94-107. (Disch praises individual segments of Madoc: A Mystery, but concludes that the sum of its parts fails to convey any overall meaning or coherence.)
- Eder, Richard, “To Understand Is to Be Perplexed,” New York Times Book Review (10 June 2001): 14. (Eder praises Muldoon's artistic development in Poems 1968-1998.)
- Griffiths, Paul, “The Singing Architect,” New Yorker (17 May 1993): 98-100. (Griffiths finds Muldoon's verse in Shining Brow to be ill-suited to Daron Hagen's musical score.)
- Hofmann, Michael, “Muldoon—A Mystery,” London Review of Books 12, no. 24 (20 December 1990): 18-19. (Hofmann evaluates Muldoon's stylistic departure in Madoc: A Mystery, calling Muldoon “one of the most metamorphic poets alive.”)
- Jenkins, Nicholas, “For ‘Mother’ Read Other,” Times Literary Supplement, no. 5000 (29 January 1999): 9-10. (Jenkins evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of Hay.)
- Malone, Christopher T., “Writing Home: Spatial Allegories in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney and Paul Muldoon,” ELH: English Literary History 67, no. 4 (winter 2000): 1083-108. (Malone provides a comparative study of the presentation of Irish national identity, cultural history, and conflicted notions of communal loyalty in the verse of Muldoon and Seamus Heaney.)
- Osborn, Andrew, “Skirmishes on the Border: The Evolution and Function of Paul Muldoon's Fuzzy Rhyme,” Contemporary Literature 41, no. 2 (summer 2000): 323-58. (Osborn offers analysis of Muldoon's approach to rhyme, as developed from New Weather to Meeting the British, drawing attention to his innovative use of half- and slant-rhyme schemes to create semantic resonances and allusions in his poetry.)
- Putzel, Steven D., “Fluid Disjunction in Paul Muldoon's ‘Immram’ and ‘The More a Man Has the More a Man Wants,’” Papers on Language and Literature 32, no. 1 (winter 1996): 85-108. (Putzel examines Muldoon's subversion of Anglo-American language and the various literary, historical, and political motifs in the poems “Immram” and “The More a Man Has the More a Man Wants.”)
- Wheatley, David, “An Irish Poet in America,” Raritan 18, no. 4 (spring 1999): 145-57. (Wheatley argues that Hay is a “transitional” work that displays Muldoon's evolving and highly complex poetic style.)
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