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Subseries 2.5
Prose, 1970s-2016
Box 29, 80-83, 114-115 and OP 5-9
Scope and Content Note
The subseries consists of Muldoon's prose writings from the 1970s-2016, including complete typescripts for The Faber Book of Beasts, and The End of the Poem: Oxford Lectures in Poetry; and extensive number other essays and lectures; reviews of books and movies; and scripts for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). Also included are a number introductions for readings by other writers.
Arrangement Note
Arranged in alphabetical order by type of writing.
Prose | ||
Box | Folder | Content |
---|---|---|
29 | 1 | "A Tight Wee Place in Armagh," photocopy of Muldoon essay in Fortnight, July/August 1984 |
80 | 1 | "The Creative Writing Program of Princeton University," report for the External Review Committee, October 1995 |
80 | 2 | "Dictionary Entries," for The Future Dictionary of America, edited by Jonathan Safran Foer, circa April 2004 |
80 | 3 | The Faber Book of Beasts, complete typescript [1 of 3] |
80 | 4 | The Faber Book of Beastss, complete typescript [2 of 3] |
80 | 5 | The Faber Book of Beasts, complete typescript [3 of 3] |
80 | 6 | The Faber Book of Beasts, contents, introduction, and index, typescripts, 1998 |
80 | 7 | The Faber Book of Beasts, "Introduction," typescripts |
80 | 8 | The Faber Book of Beasts, typescripts of included poems [1 of 2] |
80 | 9 | The Faber Book of Beasts, typescripts of included poems [2 of 2] |
80 | 10 | "Ice" and other sketches, typescript sent to C.K. Williams, circa January 1997 |
80 | 11 | "Making Hay," typescript, 1998 |
29 | 2 | Notes for Chez Moy: A Critical Autobiography, two typescripts |
29 | 3 | "Old Spice," multiple typescript drafts with holograph corrections |
80 | 12 | "Paul Muldoon on The Annals of Chile," typescript, 1998 |
Scripts: British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) | ||
29 | 4 | Explorations II: Secondary English: Seamus Heaney, typescript |
29 | 5 | Explorations II: Secondary English: Ted Hughes, typescript |
29 | 6 | "Seamus Heaney: Teacher's Notes," typescript |
29 | 7 | "Ted Hughes: Teacher's Notes," typescript |
29 | 8 | "Time for Verse," corrected typescript drafts of scripts 1 through 4 with cover page and photocopy of review |
Reviews | ||
80 | 13 | "Barbie, but no Bimbo," review of Pocahontas, photocopy of annotated page proof, October 5, 1995 [See also: OP7 Pocahontas, review entitled "Barbie, but no Bimbo"] |
29 | 9 | Belfast: An Illustrated History, by Jonathan Bardon, review entitled "Making the Most of a Desert Island," photocopy of corrected typescript with clipping of review from Fortnight, December 1982 |
80 | 14 | Blurbs on books by Dickinson, Hofmann, and Szymborska, typescripts, 1999 |
80 | 15 | Books of the Year blurbs for the Times Literary Supplement, typescripts, 1997-2004 |
29 | 10 | Cinema and Ireland, by Kevin Rockett, Luke Gibbons, and John Hill, typescript with light holograph corrections |
29 | 11 | Derek Walcott's Collected Poems, clipping from The Cambridge Review, March 1987 |
80 | 16 | "Flinging Open a Great Window," review of R.F. Foster's W.B. Yeats: A Life II: The Arch-Poet 1915-1939, typescript |
29 | 12 | Gaudette, by Ted Hughes, clipping from Fortnight, Friday June 10, 1997 |
OP1 | 3 | Dances With Wolves, review entitled "Western Ways" [variant title "Is the Western Possible?"], two clippings from TLS, February 8, 1991 |
81 | 1 | "Imprisoned Larks," review of The New Oxford Book of Children's Verse, edited by Neil Philip, typescript |
81 | 2 | Irish Journal, by Heinrich Böll, blurb for "Forgotten Works" project, typescript, 1999 |
29 | 13 | Irish Journal, by Heinrich Böll, review entitled "Heinrich on the Boll," clipping from Fortnight, May 1983 |
81 | 3 | James Joyce, Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, typescripts |
29 | 14 | The Last of the Mohicans, review entitled "The Night of the Big Hair," typescript |
OP4 | - | The Midnight Court, by Brian Merriman, review entitled "Courting Couplets," clipping from The Irish Press, December 18, 1982 |
81 | 4 | Mountain Interval, by Robert Frost, for "Books of the Century" project, typescript, 1999 |
OP1 | 4 | Pocahontas, review entitled "Barbie, but no Bimbo" [variant title "From Degeneration to Barbieism"], clipping from TLS, October 15, 1995 |
29 | 15 | "Prudence Farmer Poetry Prize," clipping from The New Statesman, September 18, 1986 |
29 | 16 | The Rattle of the North, edited by Patricia Craig, review entitled "Colcannonical," typescript |
81 | 5 | Richard Ellmann Prize, typescript |
81 | 6 | The Right and Lucky Man: Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler, edited by Frank MacShane, typescript |
OP1 | 5 | Seamus Heaney's Station Island and Sweeney Astray, with Craig Raine's Rich, review entitled "Sweaney Peregraine," clipping from The London Review of Books, November 1-14, 1984 |
OP1 | 6 | Visitor's Book, review entitled "A Book of Evasions," clipping from The London Review of Books, March 20, 1980 |
81 | 7 | William Faulker, for "Millennium Reputations" project, typescript, 1999 |
Introductions | ||
81 | 8 | Ashbery, John, April 11, 1998 |
114 | Chiasson, Dan, undated | |
81 | 9 | Dunn, Stephen and Charles Wright, typescript |
29 | 17 | Grennan, Eamon and James Lasdun, corrected typescript |
29 | 18 | Heaney, Seamus, [circa 1995, pre-Nobel Prize], corrected typescript |
81 | 10 | Heaney, Seamus, Princeton University, April 26, 1998, typescripts |
115 | The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq, undated
Introduction to a showing of the film |
|
29 | 19 | Hughes, Robert, lightly corrected typescript |
81 | 11 | Kinnell, Galway, July 29, 2002 |
29 | 20 | Komunyakaa, Yusef, Princeton University, September 20, 1995, typescript |
81 | 12 | Longley, Edna, Princeton University, April 28, 1998, typescript |
29 | 21 | Lowrie, Mark, Princeton University, February 8, 1995, typescript |
29 | 22 | Mahon, Derek, Princeton University, [ca. 1991], lightly corrected typescript |
29 | 23 | Milosz, Czeslaw, Princeton University, [1992-93], corrected typescript |
29 | 24 | Morrison, Toni, Dublin International Writer's Festival, 1993, typescript |
81 | 13 | Ní Dhomhnaill, Nuala, Princeton University, March 3 [no year] |
81 | 14 | Turow, Scott, November 29, 2000, typescript |
81 | 15 | "Varsity," reading by students at Oxford and Cambridge, University of Oxford, undated |
29 | 25 | Wallace-Crabbe, Chris, 92nd Street Y, lightly corrected typescript |
29 | 26 | Wilbur, Richard, Althea Ward Clark Reading Series at Princeton University, September 21, 1994, typescript |
Lectures and Essays | ||
81 | 16 | "Abschrift der Ansprache von Paul Muldoon," typescript, August 2004 |
81 | 17 | "The Celtic Tiger," typescript |
81 | 18 | "Diary," typescript and page proofs, circa 1999 |
81 | 19 | "The Dichter-Scale," remarks by Paul Muldoon in the Poetry and History Discussion, Cracow, October 5, 1997, typescript |
81 | 20 | Eliot Centenary Talk, notes |
81 | 21 | The End of the Poem: Oxford Lectures in Poetry, complete typescript, circa 2006 [1 of 4] |
81 | 22 | The End of the Poem: Oxford Lectures in Poetry, complete typescript, circa 2006 [2 of 4] |
81 | 23 | The End of the Poem: Oxford Lectures in Poetry, complete typescript, circa 2006 [3 of 4] |
81 | 24 | The End of the Poem: Oxford Lectures in Poetry, complete typescript, circa 2006 [4 of 4] |
82 | 1 | The End of the Poem: Oxford Lectures in Poetry, "'All Souls' Night' by W.B. Yeats," an Inaugural Lecture delivered before the University of Oxford, November 2, 1999, typescript |
82 | 2 | The End of the Poem: Oxford Lectures in Poetry, "'All Souls' Night' by W.B. Yeats," proofs and notes |
82 | 3 | The End of the Poem: Oxford Lectures in Poetry, "'All Souls' Night' by W.B. Yeats," typescript |
82 | 4 | The End of the Poem: Oxford Lectures in Poetry, "'I Remember' by Stevie Smith," typescript |
82 | 5 | The End of the Poem: Oxford Lectures in Poetry, "'I Tried to Think a Lonelier Thing' by Emily Dickinson," typescript |
82 | 6 | The End of the Poem: Oxford Lectures in Poetry, "'Poem of the End' by Marina Tsvetayeva," typescript |
82 | 7 | The End of the Poem: "The Literary Life" by Ted Hughes |
29 | 27 | The Essential Byron, typescript of introduction, typescript of introduction and annotations, and typescript notes for interview on book |
82 | 8 | "A Forward to Irish Fairy and Folk Tales by William Butler Yeats," typescript and page proof, 2002 |
82 | 9 | "Getting Round: Notes Towards an Ars Poetica," The 1998 F.W. Bateson Lecture, typescripts and notes |
82 | 10 | "The harbor is always a mess," The Dublin Review, Winter 2000-1, proofs [See also The End of the Poem: Oxford Lectures in Poetry] |
82 | 11 | "The Influence of Cinema on Contemporary Irish Poetry," typescript |
82 | 12 | "In the Hall of Mirrors: 'Autopsychography' by Fernando Pessoa," New England Review, Vol. 23 no. 4, proofs, October 2002 |
115 | Lyric Theatre, "Programme Note to Macbeth," undated | |
29 | 28 | "Madoc: A Mystery," introduction to dramatic reading of the poem, corrected typescript |
82 | 13 | Muldoon Poetry Reading, Irish Seminar, Dublin, July 28, 2003, typescript of comments about poems with introduction by Seamus Deane |
82 | 14 | "Paul Muldoon on John Donne's '[Show me, dear Christ, Thy spouse, so bright and clear],'" typescript |
82 | 15 | "Poetry and School," University College Dublin, Millennium Lecture Series, 2000, typescript |
29 | 29 | "The Point of Poetry," typescript draft with holograph corrections and final uncorrected typescript draft |
82 | 16 | "Polar Expeditions: 'I Tried To Think a Lonelier Thing' by Emily Dickinson," New England Review vol. 24 no. 2, proofs, April 2003 [See also The End of the Poem: Oxford Lectures in Poetry] |
82 | 17 | Queen's University, Belfast, Honorary Degree acceptance speech, typescripts |
82 | 18 | "Rara Avis," typescripts |
82 | 19 | Remarks, 2001 T.S. Eliot Prize Announcement |
83 | 1 | "Stiff Little Fingers: 'Alternative Ulster,'" typescript |
83 | 2 | "Talk of the Town," typescript, September 2001 |
83 | 3 | To Ireland, I, corrections and proofs, 1999-2000 |
83 | 4 | To Ireland, I, index, typescript |
83 | 5 | To Ireland, I: The 1998 Clarendon Lectures, "Contaygious to the Nile," typescript |
83 | 6 | To Ireland, I: The 1998 Clarendon Lectures, typescript |
29 | 30 | "Whitman, Yeats and Joyce," typescript with minimal holograph corrections |
29 | 31 | Why Brownlee Left, clipping of note from Poetry Book Society journal, Autumn 1980 |
83 | 7 | "Why Poetry Should be Taught at the Secondary Level," UNESCO, typescript and notes, circa 2000-2001 |
29 | 32 | "Yeats and Politics," mixed typescript and photocopies of Yeats poems with holograph notes, all in in yellow binder with brochure for Arts and Letters Live 1994 season |
29 | 33 | Untitled autobiographical sketch, typescript |
83 | 8 | Unidentified Lecture on "Getting Around," January, 1998 |
83 | 9 | Untitled essay on Louis MacNeice's "Autumn Journal," typescript |
83 | 10 | Untitled statement on listening to lectures, typescript |
83 | 11 | Untitled typescript about the relationship between poetry and the Troubles |
83 | 12 |
Unidentified lecture and essay notes
May include early notes for The Clarendon Lectures |
83 | 13 | Unidentified typescript fragment |