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Tom Paulin

Tom Paulin’s latest book is The Secret Life of Poems: A Poetry Primer.

Originally published 7 October 2004

Diary

“Perhaps controversially, Godson says that the ties Kevin McNamara and Clare Short had to their Irish backgrounds did not touch Blair, who was ‘little affected’ by his Ulster Protestant ancestry . . . But it could be argued that Blair’s continual insistence that he is right because he knows he is trustworthy and straight-talking – the narcissistic void at the heart of his political personality – is recognisably Ulster Protestant, as anyone who has studied its distinctive cultural form, the sermon, will realise.” [ read more . . . ]

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)
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)
The Faber Book of Vernacular Verse (editor) (1990)
Seize the Fire: A version of Aeschylus’ Prometheus Bound (1990)
Fivemiletown (1987)
The Hillsborough Script (1987)
The Faber Book of Political Verse (editor) (1986)
Thomas Hardy: The Poetry of Perception (1986)
Ireland and the English Crisis (1985)
The Riot Act: A version of Sophocles’ Antigone (1985)
Liberty Tree (1983)
The Strange Museum (1980)
A State of Justice (1977)

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In the LRB archive

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Entrepreneurship · 29 November 2007

Letters of Ted Hughes edited by Christopher Reid Buy this book

Four Poems · 25 May 2006

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

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

Poem: ‘The Road to Inver’ · 25 September 2003

Poem: ‘During the Countdown’ · 20 February 2003

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

Jangling Monarchy · 8 August 2002