Bøker av Wit Pietrzak

The book is the first study of Paul Muldoon's elegiac poetry. It covers virtually all of his elegies, showing how the elegiac attitude has underlain Muldoon's poetic development and shaped his aesthetics and formal developments, as it also demonstrates the extent to which Muldoon's elegies have transformed the genre

The book is the first study of Paul Muldoon's elegiac poetry. It covers virtually all of his elegies, showing how the elegiac attitude has underlain Muldoon's poetic development and shaped his aesthetics and formal developments, as it also demonstrates the extent to which Muldoon's elegies have transformed the genre

What transpires is an image of Yeats who is strung between the impulses of faith in the existence of a supernatural order and ironic scepticism as to the possibility of ever capturing that order in language.This study is distinguished by its grounding of Yeats's critical agenda in a broader context through textual analysis.