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Tom Paulin

Tom Paulin’s most recent book is Crusoe’s Secret. His study of poetic form, The Secret Life of Poems, will be published in January.

Selected bibliography

  • The Crusoe’s Secret: The Aesthetics of Dissent (2005)  Buy this book
  • Thomas Hardy (Poet to Poet Series) (2005)
  • The Road to Inver (2004)
  • The Invasion Handbook (2002)
  • The Strange Museum (2002)
  • William Hazlitt: The Fight and Other Writings edited by Tom Paulin (2000)
  • The Wind Dog (1999)
  • The Day-Star of Liberty: William Hazlitt’s Radical Style (1998)
  • Writing to the Moment: Selected Critical Essays 1980-1996 (1997)
  • Walking a Line (1994)
  • Selected Poems 1972-1990 (1993)
  • Minotaur: Poetry and the Nation State (1992)
  • Seize the Fire: A version of Aeschylus’ Prometheus Bound (1990)
  • The Faber Book of Vernacular Verse (editor) (1990)
  • Fivemiletown (1987)
  • The Hillsborough Script (1987)
  • The Faber Book of Political Verse (editor) (1986)
  • Thomas Hardy: The Poetry of Perception (1986)
  • The Riot Act: A version of Sophocles’ Antigone (1985)
  • Ireland and the English Crisis (1985)
  • Liberty Tree (1983)
  • A State of Justice (1977)

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In the LRB archive

Entrepreneurship · 29 November 2007

Four Poems · 25 May 2006

subscriber-only content Holy Boldness · 16 December 2004

  • Glimpses of Glory: John Bunyan and English Dissent by Richard Greaves  Buy this book
  • Theology and Narrative in the Works of John Bunyan by Michael Davies  Buy this book
  • The Portable Bunyan: A Transnational History of ‘The Pilgrim’s Progress’ by Isabel Hofmeyr

Diary: Trimble’s virtues · 7 October 2004

subscriber-only content Gentlemen and ladies came to see the poet’s cottage · 19 February 2004

  • John Clare: A Biography by Jonathan Bate
  • ‘I Am’: The Selected Poetry of John Clare edited by Jonathan Bate
  • John Clare, Politics and Poetry by Alan Vardy
  • John Clare Vol. V: Poems of the Middle Period 1822-37 edited by Eric Robinson, David Powell and P.M.S. Dawson

subscriber-only content Poem: ‘The Road to Inver’ · 25 September 2003

subscriber-only content Poem: ‘During the Countdown’ · 20 February 2003

subscriber-only content Poem: ‘On Being Dealt the Anti-Semitic Card’ · 2 January 2003

subscriber-only content Jangling Monarchy · 8 August 2002

  • A Companion to Milton by Thomas N. Corns
  • The Life of John Milton: A Critical Biography by Barbara K. Lewalski

subscriber-only content Fugitive Crusoe · 19 July 2001

  • Daniel Defoe: Master of Fictions by Maximilian Novak
  • Political and Economic Writings of Daniel Defoe edited by W.R. Owens and P.N. Furbank

subscriber-only content Poem: ‘Prologue’ · 25 January 2001

In the Workshop · 22 January 1998

Not currently in the LRB archive

 not available in archive Poem: ‘The Mechelin Incident’ · 24 August 2000

 not available in archive Poem: ‘James ‘Mick’ Magennis VC’ · 6 January 2000

 not available in archive O brambles, chain me too · 25 November 1999

  • World Enough and Time: The Life of Andrew Marvell by Nicholas Murray
  • Marvell and Liberty edited by Warren Chernaik and Martin Dzelzainis
  • Andrew Marvell edited by Thomas Healy

 not available in archive Two Poems · 30 September 1999

 not available in archive Diary · 16 September 1999

 not available in archive Poem: ‘Door Poem’ · 21 January 1999

 not available in archive Diary · 18 June 1998

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