Tom Paulin Summary

Tom Paulin is one of the most intelligent and accomplished poets to have emerged from the North of Ireland in recent years. The authority of his political imagination won immediate recognition in the ... Read more

In the following review, Shippey praises Paulin's editorial selections in The Faber Book of Vernacular Verse, though objects to his refusal to acknowledge class and ideology, rather than aesthe... Read more

In the following review, Schwartz commends Paulin's historicized literary criticism in Minotaur: Poetry and the Nation State but finds his extreme rage against state and aesthetic ideologies po... Read more

In the following review, Taylor commends Paulin's revisionary critical study of “Victorian journalist” William Hazlitt in The Day-Star of Liberty: William Hazlitt's Radical... Read more

In the following review, Foot commends Paulin's analysis of Hazlitt's prose in The Day-Star of Liberty: William Hazlitt's Radical Style but finds fault in Paulin's failure ... Read more

In the following review, Matthews praises Paulin's meditative tone and use of aural effects in The Wind Dog, calling the collection “a vitally important book.” Poets from Ireland ... Read more

In the following essay, Richards compares and contrasts Paulin's Seize the Fire with Seamus Heaney's The Cure at Troy, drawing attention to Paulin's portrayal of Prometheus as a r... Read more

In the following review, Hamilton criticizes Paulin's failure to address the contradictory personality and political convictions of William Hazlitt in The Day-Star of Liberty: William Hazlitt&#... Read more

In the following review, Newey offers praise for the poems in The Invasion Handbook, which he favorably compares to T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land. I suspect that Tom Paulin's latest colle... Read more

In the following review, Kermode commends the ambition and sophistication of The Invasion Handbook, though notes that the volume's many obscure references may require supplementary reading. Thi... Read more

In the following review, Carnell commends Paulin's insightful critical readings in Minotaur: Poetry and the Nation State. Raymond Williams once remarked of the poetry criticism of fellow-Marxis... Read more

In the following review, Diggory compliments Paulin's reading of poetry in Minotaur: Poetry and the Nation State, despite objecting to the volume's “heavy-handed” political... Read more

In the following review, Maguire praises Paulin's blend of lyricism and “self-questioning” in Walking a Line. Nissen huts, bungalows, carports, studios, bars: hardly a poem goes b... Read more

In the following review, Mackinnon admires Paulin's ambitiousness as a poet but finds shortcomings in the underdeveloped and suggestive verse of Walking a Line. In his early poem, “A New... Read more