A selective list of online literary criticism for the Irish poet Paul Muldooon, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the MLA Guidelines for Web Pages
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Andrews, Elmer Kennedy, ed. Publisher's blurb for Paul Muldoon:Poetry, Prose, & Drama A Collection of Critical Essays, (Colin Smythe November 2005). With essays by Peter Denman, Richard York, Kathleen McCracken, Tim Kendall, Tim Hancock, Elmer Kennedy-Andrews, Stan Smith, Ivan Phillips, Clair Wills, Heather O'Donoghue, Guinn Batten, and Jerzy Jarniewicz
Birkets, Sven. About Paul Muldoon: A Profile In Ploughshares, Spring 2000
Buxton, Rachael. Publisher's blurb for Robert Frost and Northern Irish Poetry a study on Frost, Seamus Heaney, and Paul Muldoon. (Oxford Univ. Press, 2004)
Campbell, Matthew. Publisher's blurb for The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary Irish Poetry (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2003)
Corcoran, Neil. Review of Poets of Modern Ireland: Text, Context, Intertext. By Neil Corcoran. (Southern Illinois University Press). Also reviewed Tongue of Water, Teeth of Stones: Northern Irish Poetry and Social Violence. By Jonathan Hufstader. (University Press of Kentucky, 1999). In SAMLA, by Garland Kimmer, n.d.
Forbes, Peter. Critical Perspective on Paul Muldoon in British Arts Council introduction to Paul Muldoon
Fenton, James. On Paul Muldoon's collaborations with the song-writer Warren Zevon "why doesn't it happen more often that people who profess to be poets write song-lyrics too?" in The Guardian, 9/20/03
Gregson, Ian. Publisher's blurb for The Male Image: Representations of Masculinity in Postwar Poetry (Palgrave, 1999) Covers Robert Lowell, John Berryman, Derek Walcott's, Ted Hughes, Seamus Heany, C.K. Williams, Paul Muldoon.
Kendall, Tim & McDonald, Peter (eds). Publisher's blurb for Paul Muldoon: Critical Essays (Liverpool Univ. Press, 2004)
Kerrigan, John. Paul Muldoon's Transits: "Muddling through after Madoc." On exile and Irishness. In Jacket 20 (Dec. 2002)
Longley, Edna. Poetry and the Peace Process. An interview with Edna Longley, from Books and Writing, on Radio National, 7/24/05
McDonald, Peter. Publisher's blurb for Mistaken Identities: Poetry and Northern Ireland (Oxford Univ. Press. 2000) Covers Seamus Heaney, Tom Paulin, Louis MacNeice, Derek Mahon, Paul Muldoon, and others. A sample chapter is available
Muldoon, Paul. Paul Muldoon's brief discussion of Robert Frost's "The Mountain," in American Poetry Review, Jan. 2001
Muldoon, Paul. Paul Muldoon's personal web site, which contains news about his books and readings
O'Grady, Thomas. Book Reviews: Ciaran Carson, Paul Muldoon, Richard Murphy. In the Boston Review, April 2002.
Phillips, Ivan. A substantial introduction to Paul Muldoon in the Literary Encyclopedia, 21 March 2002. On New Weather (1973); On Why Brownlee Left (1980); On Quoof (1983); On Madoc: A Mystery (1990); On The Annals of Chile (1994)
Potts, Robert. The poet at play. "Widely considered to be the greatest poet of his generation, he has been inspired by his childhood in Northern Ireland and the Troubles. But, say some critics, the work of the Oxford professor of poetry is too wilfully obscure." In the Guardian 5/12/2001
Putzel, Steven D. "Fluid dysjunction in Paul Muldoon's 'Immram' and 'The More a Man Has the More a Man Wants.'" "[B]y making the most of the polyglot nature of English as spoken and written in Ireland and by interweaving disparate literary traditions, Paul Muldoon has to some extent achieved what Mikhail Bakhtin claimed was impossible: he has constructed a "hybrid," multiple-voiced poetic language, a dialogized language that is both difficult and extremely effective." In Papers on Lang. and Lit., 1/1/96
Redmond, John. Indicting the Exquisite Review of Paul Muldoon's The Annals of Chile (Faber) in Thumbscrew No 1 (Winter 1994-5)
Redmond, John. Interview with Paul Muldoon by John Redmond in Thumbscrew No 4 (Spring 1996)
Wills, Clair. Publisher's blurb for Improprieties: Politics and Sexuality in Northern Irish Poetry (Oxford Univ. Press, 1994) Covers Tom Paulin, Medbh McGuckian, and Paul Muldoon
We Talked and Talked and Talked: Jonathan Safran Foer on Paul Muldoon. In LA Weekly, 5/3/02
"Poet in a prize position. A conversation with Paul Muldoon," in the Guardian, 6/8/1999
Paul Muldoon honored with Pulitzer Prize for poetry, Princeton Weekly Bulletin, April 14, 2003
Muldoon breaks down the language barriers to turn them into poetry, in the Sunday Herald, May 6, 2001 by Brian Morton
Paul Muldoon Interview by Gavin J. Grant, in Booksense, n.d.
A Guardian article on contemporary British poetry covers the influence of Heaney, Muldoon, Hill, and others, 10/5/05
A description of the Irish Literature book and manuscript holdings at Emory University, which are extensive, and include Paul Muldoon papers.
Paul Muldoon secondary bibliography from a class on Twentieth Century British lit. at Oxford
Primary and secondary bibliography from Paul Muldoon's web site.
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