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The Deregulated Muse: Essays on Contemporary British & Irish Poetry »
Authors: Sean O'Brien
ISBN-13: 9781852242817, ISBN-10: 1852242817
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
Date Published: November 1998
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: Sean O'Brien
Book Synopsis
The Deregulated Muse examines cases, causes, methods, influences, quarrels and achievements in the work of numerous poets, including Larkin, Hughes, Heaney, Harrison, Dunn, Ken Smith, Craig Raine, Adcock, Rumens, Reading, Paulin, Fenton and Muldoon, as well as emergent figures such as Didsbury, Duffy, Dunmore, Selima Hill, Sweeney, Shapcott, Carson, Leonard, Jamie, Jenkins, D'Aguiar, Armitage, Maxwell, Kay and Paterson. Written to be read rather than endured, The Deregulated Muse is the most inclusive book of its kind, aimed at general readers and students as well as specialists.
Table of Contents
| Preface | 9 | |
| Introduction: Who's in Charge Here? | 13 | |
| I | The Ends of England | |
| 1 | Philip Larkin: If Home Existed | 23 |
| 2 | Ted Hughes: Time Not History | 34 |
| 3 | Geoffrey Hill: The England Where Nobody Lives | 41 |
| II | Different Class | |
| 4 | Tony Harrison: Show the Working | 51 |
| 5 | Douglas Dunn: Ideology and Pastoral | 65 |
| 6 | Ken Smith: I Am Always Lost in It | 81 |
| III | All Ireland (I) | |
| 7 | Seamus Heaney: The Space Made by Poetry | 89 |
| 8 | Derek Mahon: The World as Exile | 97 |
| 9 | Paul Durcan: Look at it This Way | 104 |
| IV | A Daft Place | |
| 10 | Roy Fisher: A Polytheism with No Gods | 112 |
| 11 | Peter Reading: The Poet as Thatcherite? | 123 |
| 12 | Peter Porter: A Planet in the Mind | 132 |
| 13 | Peter Didsbury: Getting Some Things Down | 139 |
| V | Redressing the Balance | |
| 14 | Fleur Adcock: All the Things Men Do | 148 |
| 15 | Carol Rumens: The Room You Are in Is also History | 154 |
| 16 | Carol Ann Duffy: A Stranger Here Myself | 160 |
| VI | All Ireland (II) | |
| 17 | Paul Muldoon: The Advanced Muldoon | 171 |
| 18 | Tom Paulin: The Critic Who Is Truly a Critic | 181 |
| 19 | Ciaran Carson: These Things Are What We Are | 189 |
| 20 | Matthew Sweeney: A Separate Peace | 198 |
| VII | Postmodernist, Moi? | |
| 21 | John Fuller, James Fenton: Footnotes and Fetishes | 207 |
| 22 | Craig Raine, Christopher Reid, Blake Morrison, Andrew Motion, Michael Hofmann: Middlemen | 219 |
| 23 | Simon Armitage, Glyn Maxwell: Now then, Lads | 241 |
| 24 | Jo Shapcott, Selima Hill, Helen Dunmore: The Long Haul | 251 |
| 25 | Don Paterson, Kathleen Jamie, Robert Crawford, W. N. Herbert: Scotland! Scotland! Actual/Virtual | 261 |
| Afterword: In Search of an Audience | 270 | |
| Notes | 275 | |
| Index | 309 |
Subjects
Fiction Books & Literature
Literary Criticism English Literature
Fiction Books & Literature Literary Criticism Irish Literature
Fiction Books & Literature Literary Criticism Poetry - Literary Criticism
Literary Criticism English LiteratureFiction Books & Literature
Literary Criticism Irish LiteratureFiction Books & Literature
Literary Criticism Poetry - Literary Criticism
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