Poetic Emergencies: Senses of Ending in Paul Muldoon’s “Incantata”

Paul Muldoon’s lectures as Professor of Poetry at Oxford demonstrate a sustained interest in how poems might be said to “end”. On several occasions, he returns to Giorgio Agamben’s short essay “The End of the Poem” and its argument that a poem’s conclusion is a kind of “emergency”, a source of anxie...

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Main Author: James Costello O'Reilly
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Asociación Española de Estudios Irlandeses 2021-03-01
Series:Estudios Irlandeses
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Online Access:https://www.estudiosirlandeses.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/ed-JAMES-COSTELLO-OREILLY-FINAL-1.pdf