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Muldoon, Paul. 2006. The End of the Poem. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. $30.00 hc. $17.00 sc. 406 pp.

Publication: College Literature
Publication Date: 22-JUN-08 		Format: Online
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Full Article Title: Muldoon, Paul. 2006. The End of the Poem. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. $30.00 hc. $17.00 sc. 406 pp.(Book review)

Article Excerpt
At about the midpoint of The End of the Poem. Paul Muldoon cites the opinion of Octavio Paz: "In theory, only poets should translate poetry; in practice, poets are rarely good translators. They almost invariably use the foreign poem as a point of departure for their own" (204).Taking a clue from the name of that idea's originator, just about an octave of pages earlier Muldoon calls translation "a form of criticism" (195), so we could in turn define poetic criticism, when practiced by a poet, as the act of rewriting the poems one reads into one's own work.

The preceding paragraph offers a diluted taste of the methodology of Paul Muldoon in The End of the Poem, a collection of fifteen lectures delivered during his term from 1999 to 2004 as Oxford Professor of Poetry. Essentially, the reader gets to look over the shoulder of a prominent poet as he...

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