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Paul Muldoon is an Irish poet. He has published more than thirty collections and won a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the T. S. Eliot Prize. At Princeton University he has been both the Howard G. B. Clark '21 University Professor in the Humanities and Founding Chair of the Lewis Center for the Arts.
Muldoon’s poetry is known for its use of paradox: his poems are playful but serious, elusive but direct, innovative but traditional. He uses traditional verse forms such as the sonnet, ballad, and dramatic monologue, but alters their length and basic structure, and uses rhyme and meter in innovative ways.
The website for Pulitzer Prizewinning Irish poet Paul Muldoon: poet, critic, librettist, lyricist, playwright, Princeton University professor, and host of Muldoon's Picnic at the Irish Arts Center.
Jun 16, 2024 · Paul Muldoon (born June 20, 1951, Portadown, County Armagh, Northern Ireland) is a Northern Irish poet whose oeuvre covers both intensely personal and political terrain—from his wife’s miscarriage to the conflict in Northern Ireland. He won a Pulitzer Prize for poetry for Moy Sand and Gravel (2002).
Paul Muldoon is an Irish poet and professor of poetry, as well as an editor, critic, playwright, lyricist and translator.
Paul Muldoon - Born in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, in 1951, Paul Muldoon is the author of numerous collections, including Moy Sand and Gravel, which won the Pulitzer Prize.
Jul 14, 2017 · Paul Muldoon, the Howard G. B. Clark '21 University Professor in the Humanities and professor of creative writing, reflects on poetry, the creative process, teaching at Princeton, the relevance of the humanities and the importance of fun.
Paul Muldoon is one of Ireland’s most outstanding contemporary poets, and one of the most admired English-language poets anywhere in the world. He was born into a Catholic family in 1951 in a predominantly Protestant region of Portadown, County Armagh in Northern Ireland.
A major figure in English-language poetry for decades, Paul Muldoon has enjoyed one of the most successful careers of his generation. His first collection was published when he was still an undergraduate at Queen’s University, Belfast.
Paul Muldoon has for many years been regarded as Northern Ireland’s greatest contemporary poet after Seamus Heaney. However, since Muldoon’s 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Moy Sand and Gravel (2002), many now consider him to be on a par with Heaney.
