MULDOON,
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Subseries 3.2
Theses and unpublished articles, essays, and interviews,
1939-2004
Boxes 32-34, 86-89, 116, 118
Scope and Content Note
The subseries consists primarily of writings about Muldoon's poetry from approximately 1987-2004, including theses, unpublished articles, and essays, as well as transcripts of interviews with Muldoon. Most files contain an original copy of the essay, article, or interview, with some files containing accompanying correspondence and cover letters. The subseries also includes a discussion on poetry between Louis MacNeice and F. R. Higgins from 1939 with notes written in the margins by Muldoon
Arrangement Note
Arranged in alphabetical order by author.
Box | Folder | Content |
---|---|---|
86 | 1 | Allen, Michael, typescript, "Pax Hibernica / Pax Americana: Rhyme and Reconciliation in Muldoon," undated |
86 | 2 | Barker, Sebastian, interview, "A Drink with Paul Muldoon," Long Group Poem Newsletter, typescripts and correspondence, 1997-1998 |
32 | 1 | Barron, Patrick, typescript of interview with Muldoon with extensive holograph comments, answers, and corrections by Muldoon, with cover letter to P. Barron, August 31, 1994 |
32 | 2 | Batten, Guinn, "Belfast Crack: Ciaran Carson's Parturient Partition," typescript of March 1992 Graduate Student Conference in Irish Studies paper |
32 | 3 | Batten, Guinn, "Dissent and Descent: Paul Muldoon's Family Romances," typescript essay, March 25, 1992, with cover letter |
32 | 4 | Batten, Guinn, The Orphaned Imagination: Home, Loss, and Melancholia in English Romantic Poetry," typescript of dissertation proposal with cover letter to Muldoon, July 1, 1992 [sic-93] |
32 | 5 | Batten, Guinn, "Romantic Melancholy and Contemporary Irish Poetry" (paper delivered at ACIS panel, 1993 MLA Conference) and "Professional Mourning and Poetic Melancholy" (preface to The Orphaned Imagination) both typescript essays enclosed with cover letter to Muldoon, April 28, 1994 |
86 | 3 | Batten, Guinn, "Where All the Ladders Start: Identity, Ideology, and the Ghosts of the Subjected Body in Blake, Yeats and Muldoon," typescript, no date |
86 | 4 | Bellamy, Dawn, "'All would be swept away'? Generic development in Paul Muldoon's 'Yarrow,'" draft of Masters dissertation, September 2001 |
32 | 6 | Benedetti, Sandrine, Paul Muldoon: Some Aspects of His Poetry, bound Master's thesis for Universite de Caen, Department of English and North American Studies, 1987 |
86 | 5 | Bern, Megan, bachelors thesis, "'Singleminded Swervings,' Thematic Consideration by Volume of the Early Poetry of Paul Muldoon," 1997 |
86 | 6 | Birkerts, Sven, "millennium questionnaire," interview with typed responses by Paul Muldoon, January 4, 2000 |
32 | 7 | Blacking, John, "Myths About Man and Society," typescript |
32 | 8 | Bosch, Daniel, "Outpost of Progressivism," review of Madoc: A Mystery |
86 | 7 | Bolman, Christopher, typescript, "Communicating through Chaos: An Interpretation of the Inner Workings of Paul Muldoon's 'Symposium,'" May 12, 2003 |
32 | 9 | Brandes, Randy, typescript of interview with Seamus Heaney at Emory University Ellmann Lectures (April 1988) |
86 | 8 | Breeze, Andrew, The Magic of Poetry was Transformation; It was Words Changing Shape, Meaning and Form, undated |
86 | 9 | Bruton, John, untitled lecture typescript on the Irish peace process, delivered September 25, 2001 |
32 | 10 | Burt, Steve, typescript of Harvard University Bachelor's thesis chapter on Muldoon, with cover letter "November 13, 1993" |
86 | 10 | Buxton, Rachel, Never Quite Showing His Hand: Robert Frost and Paul Muldoon, undated |
86 | 11 | Cliff, Brian, biographical entry on Muldoon, unidentified publication, circa 2003 |
86 | 12 | Cliff, Brian, doctoral dissertation, Communities of Difference in Contemporary Irish Literature, 2001 |
86 | 13 | Cliff, Brian, Poetry "On the Cusp": The Manuscripts for Paul Muldoon's "7, Middagh Street," December 16, 1997 |
86 | 14 | Cliff, Brian, interview with Muldoon, corrected transcript, no date |
87 | 1 | Contemporary Authors, biographical sketch of Muldoon included in the volume, corrected proof, February 1996 |
87 | 2 | Corcoran, Neil, "A Languorous Cutting Edge: Muldoon vs. Heaney?", typescript, undated |
87 | 3 | Corcoran, Neil, typescripts and page proof of interview conducted with Muldoon at the 2000 Ulster Symposium, 2000-2004 |
32 | 11 | Coulter, Anne, The Poetry of Paul Muldoon, spiral-bound Bachelor's thesis for Ulster Polytechnic, 1984 |
32 | 12 | Crofts, Thomas, Neither One Thing or the Other: Metamorphosis as a Key to the Poetry of Paul Muldoon, typescript M.Phil. thesis for Trinity College, Dublin, 1992, with typescript of provisional outline |
87 | 4 | Drum, Meredith, interview with Muldoon, July 11, 1997 |
87 | 5 | Editors, Lily. A Monthly Online Literary Review, typescript interview with Muldoon, December 17, 2003 |
87 | 6 | Farrimond, Patrick, "Going with the Flow: Paul Muldoon and the Loss of Aesthetic Duty," undated |
32 | 13 | Gales, Christopher. Interview with Paul Muldoon (1980's?). |
32 | 14 | Gaudin, Elisabeth and Jacues Jouet, typescript packet of translations of 12 Quoof poems with several pieces of correspondence, including Muldoon's responses to their questions |
87 | 7 | Gauthier, Dominique, typescript essay, "'The Big House' by Paul Muldoon: The Approach of the Satirist," circa 1994 |
87 | 8 | Gauthier, Dominique, typescript article, "Thèmes et variations: les mythologies américaines subversives du poète Paul Muldoon," February 1996 |
87 | 9 | Gauthier, Dominique, typescript of interview with Muldoon, February 1996 |
87 | 10 | Gering, August, To Sing of '98: The United Irishmen Rising and the Ballad Tradition in Heaney and Muldoon, summer, 1999 |
87 | 11 | Greenlaw, Lavinia, typescripts of interview with Muldoon, November 2000-March 2001 |
87 | 12 | Haffenden, John, conversation with Paul Muldoon (revised), no date |
87 | 13 | Hall, Donald; McHugh, Heather; Huntington, Cynthia; Muldoon, Paul; Simic, Charles; page proofs and corrections by Muldoon of transcribed discussion, published in Harpers Magazine, 1999 |
32 | 15 | Hart, Michael, typescript of Muldoon's entry in Modern Irish Writers: A Bio-critical Sourcebook, with cover letter August 21, 1995 |
87 | 14 | Hartley, George, typescript, "Rewriting the Conquest: The Poetics of Hegemony in Francisco X. Alarcón," undated |
32 | 16 | Heaney, Seamus, "The Poetry of Richard Murphy," offprint |
87 | 15 | Jones, Rodney, Ed Brunner, and Charles Fanning, Paul Muldoon interview, April 21, 1995 |
32 | 17 | Keane, Patrick, "The Colereidgean 'One Life' in Muldoon's Madoc," typescript essay |
33 | 1 | Kendall, Tim, typescript of chapter on Annals, with bibliography fragments and acknowledgements draft |
33 | 2 | Kendall, Tim, typescript of chapter on The Prince of the Quotidian and Six Honest Serving Men |
33 | 3 | Kendall, Tim, early typescript of Paul Muldoon, with cover letter June 25, 1995 (1 of 2) |
33 | 4 | Kendall, Tim, early typescript of Paul Muldoon (2 of 2) |
33 | 5 | Kendall, Tim, "Fathers and Mothers: On Paul Muldoon's Life," typescript chapter |
33 | 6 | Kendall, Tim, "Paul Muldoon and the Art of Allusion," typescript |
33 | 7 | Kendall, Tim, "Paul Muldoon's 'Singleminded Swervings'" typescript of thesis chapter on Muldoon, with cover letter May 9, 1994 |
87 | 16 | Ketteridge, Rob, script for television special, "Coming to Terms: Ireland, Artists and the Peace Process," featuring Muldoon, circa 2000 |
87 | 17 | Koch, Kenneth, "About Paul Muldoon," undated |
33 | 8 | Kosters, Onno, "Making the Translation: vier vertalers op zoek naar een vertaling," bound typescript thesis in Dutch for Vrije University, Amsterdam, with cover letter June 17, 1990 |
33 | 9 | Lloyd, Christian L., The Crisis of Style: The Poetry of Paul Muldoon, hardcover bound Master's thesis for University of Saskatchewan, with photocopy abstract, October 1990 |
87 | 18 | McCarey, Peter, "How Duke Valentine Contrived," typescript, no date |
33 | 10 | McCurry, Jackie, Serious Mischief: Paul Muldoon's Poetry, typescript of unpublished book with cover letter November 4, 1994 [1 of 2] |
33 | 11 | McCurry, Jackie, Serious Mischief: Paul Muldoon's Poetry, typescript of unpublished book [2 of 2] |
87 | 19 | McCurry, Jacqueline, untitled typescript |
87 | 20 | McDonald, Peter, typescript of book chapter, "Paul Muldoon and the windlass-men," from Mistaken Identities: Poetry and Northern Ireland, 1997 |
34 | 1 | Mac Giolla Léith, Caoimhín, "Translating Contemporary Irish Poetry Into English: The Case of Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill," photocopy of typescript with holograph corrections |
34 | 2 | McGrath, Niall, typescript of interview with Paul Muldoon at the John Hewitt International Festival, Co. Antrim, July 29, 1994 |
34 | 2a | MacNeice, Louis and F. R. Higgins, " 'Tendencies in Modern Poetry,' a discussion broadcast from Northern Ireland," The Listener, 1939 (with Muldoon's handwritten notes) |
87 | 21 | Martin, Richard, typescript, preface to Muldoon translation of The Birds, circa 1999 |
88 | 1 | Muldoon, Maureen, untitled novel, typescript, circa 2005 [1 of 2] |
88 | 2 | Muldoon, Maureen, untitled novel, typescript, circa 2005 [2 of 2] |
88 | 3 | Murphy, Shane, "Obliquity in the Poetry of Paul Muldoon and Medbh McGuckian," typescript, April 1997 |
88 | 4 | Ni Dhomhnaill, Nuala, "A Ghostly Alhambra," unidentified translator, circa 1997 |
34 | 3 | Noble, Jennifer, typescript of 1990 interview with Muldoon at Yeats Summer School, with two cover letters |
116 | O'Casey, Sean, The Cooing of Doves, undated | |
34 | 4 | Ohno, Mitsuko, "In Different Voices: Contemporary Irish Woman Poets and Japan," offprint of essay on Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill's Pharoh's Daughter, March 1995 |
34 | 5 | Parcerisas, Francesc, photocopy packet of poems and translations |
88 | 5 | Phillips, Ivan, Lord Muldoon: The Revision of Judgment, uncorrected typescript, circa 1998 |
88 | 6 | Princeton creative writing students, "Memmo" parodying Paul Muldoon, 2001 |
88 | 7 | Redmond, John, "Interview with Paul Muldoon," page proof with corrections, appears in Thumbscrew 4, Spring 1996 |
34 | 6 | Richardson, James, "James Merrill: Room Within Rooms," typescript of essay for publication in Poetry, August 1993 |
34 | 7 | Ross, Jean W., Interview with Muldoon with biographical sketch by Barbara Carlisle Bigelow |
88 | 8 | Rubin, Stan and Earl Ingersoll, "The Invention of the I: A Conversation with Paul Muldoon," typescript, 1996 |
88 | 9 | Rytter, E. Eric, Native American Transformation and the Creative Imagination in Paul Muldoon's Aesthetic, August 8, 1997 |
34 | 8 | Shinder, Jason, typescript of interview with Paul Muldoon for The Essential Byron |
88 | 10 | Schinder, Jason, "The Poet as Maverick: Paul Muldoon on Lord Byron," interview with Muldoon, undated |
88 | 11 | Sullivan, John, "An Elegy for Mourning: Paul Muldoon's The Annals of Chile," bachelors thesis, final copy 1997 |
88 | 12 | Test, Mac, email interview with Muldoon, November 26, 2003 |
118 | Twiddy, "Cancer and the Ethics of Representation in Paul Muldoon's Horse Latitudes," undated | |
88 | 13 | Walsh, Patrick, unidentified typescript, undated |
34 | 9 | Waters, John, "Positioning Ireland in the Postmodernism Debates: On Avoiding the Inevitable," typescript with light holograph corrections |
89 | 1 | Wheeler, Susan, "Interview of Paul Muldoon," typescript |
89 | 2 | Williams, Jonathan, master's thesis typescript, untitled, August 5, 2003 |
34 | 10 | Wills, Clair, Language, History and Sex in the Poetry of Paul Muldoon and Medbh McGuckian, typescript of 1989 dissertation for Queen's College (1 of 2) |
34 | 11 | Wills, Clair, Language, History and Sex in the Poetry of Paul Muldoon and Medbh McGuckian, typescript of 1989 dissertation for Queen's College (2 of 2) |
34 | 12 | Cathal [?], So Tantalizingly Out of Reach: An Introduction to the Poetry of Paul Muldoon, typescript with cover letter December 19 |
34 | 13 | Unidentified author, 2 pages of faxed questions with four pages of Muldoon's typescript answers |
34 | 14 | Unidentified author, "'He Could Barely Tell One from the Other': The Borderland Disorders of Paul Muldoon," typescript |
34 | 15 | Unidentified author, typescript notes and musings (almost a journal) on Muldoon, beginning January 29, 1990 circa 78 pp. |
34 | 16 | Unidentified author, "Poetry from the North of Ireland: 1988" |
89 | 3 | Unidentified author, "The Annals of Chile," typescript review, October 1995 |
89 | 4 | Unidentified author, "Bibliophile: Paul Muldoon," interview, no date |
89 | 5 | Unidentified author, "Hermes' Hands: Figuring Paul Muldoon," typescript essay, July 1997 |
89 | 6 | Unidentified author, untitled essay on Muldoon's "Symposium," circa 1998 |
89 | 7 | Unidentified author, interview with Muldoon, typescript, August 20, 2003 |
89 | 8 | Unidentified author, interview with Muldoon, undated |
89 | 9 | Unidentified author, "Lesson: Identifying Native American sources in Paul Muldoon's 'The Indians on Alcatraz,'" undated |
89 | 10 | Unidentified author, "The Revision of Reading," undated |
89 | 11 | Unidentified author, Toppling the Omphalos: Paul Muldoon's Critique of Self and Place in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney, undated |
89 | 12 | Unidentified author, "'Two Streams Flowing Together': Paul Muldoon's Inscription of Native America'" |
89 | 13 | Unidentified author, typescript review of poetry by Gjertrud Schnackenberg, undated |
89 | 14 | Unidentified author, untitled typescript, April 1996 |
89 | 15 | Unidentified author, typescript with various quotations and personal notes, undated |
89 | 16 | Unidentified author, untitled typescript, undated |