The Independent - London, December 15th, 2006
Paul Muldoon's collection of lectures written during his stint as Oxford Professor of Poetry, The End of the Poem, sees him preoccupied with textual haunting as he unravels a poem's "invisible threads". Muldoon often takes a single word and works a kind of free association that takes in the references that might have arisen from the poet's own reading history. Such excavation sees him tracking the poem's genesis, "marking and measuring itself ", "against a combination of what it might now be and what it might yet become".
As he explains in a reading of Robert Frost's "The Mountain", he is int...
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