“I want you to tell me if grief, brought to numbers, cannot be so fierce”: Stanzaic Form, Rhythm and Play in Paul Muldoon’s Long Poems
Three long poems by Paul Muldoon are discussed, and the argument is advanced that their rhythmic organisation is located above all at the level of the stanza. From early in his career, Muldoon has not used regular metres; the iambic pentameter, whose traces are often heard in the lines of his contem...
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Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée
2010-12-01
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| Series: | Études Britanniques Contemporaines |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/ebc/2815 |