Tom Paulin

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

In the LRB Archive:

• Poem: ‘From ‘Oedipus at Colonus’’ · 9 April 2009

• Entrepreneurship: Ted Hughes and the Hare · 29 November 2007

  • Letters of Ted Hughes edited by Christopher Reid

• Holy Boldness: John Bunyan · 16 December 2004

  • Glimpses of Glory: John Bunyan and English Dissent by Richard Greaves
  • Theology and Narrative in the Works of John Bunyan by Michael Davies
  • 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: Clare’s anti-pastoral · 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: Milton and the Regicides · 8 August 2002

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

• Fugitive Crusoe on Daniel Defoe · 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

• Poem: ‘Prologue’ · 25 January 2001

• Poem: ‘The Mechelen Incident’ · 24 August 2000

• James ‘Mick’ Magennis VC · 6 January 2000

• O brambles, chain me too: Life and Vowels of Andrew Marvell · 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

• Two Poems · 30 September 1999

• Diary: Summer in Donegal · 16 September 1999

• Poem: ‘Door Poem’ · 21 January 1999

• Diary on the Belfast agreement · 18 June 1998

• In the Workshop on Shakespeare’s Sonnets · 22 January 1998

  • The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets by Helen Vendler
  • Shakespeare's Sonnets edited by Katherine Duncan-Jones

• Poem: ‘The Unholy One?’ · 11 December 1997

• Poem: ‘The Wind Dog’ · 17 October 1996

• Undesirable · 9 May 1996

  • T.S. Eliot, Anti-Semitism and Literary Form by Anthony Julius

• Three Poems in Memory of Charles Monteith 9 February 1921 – 9 May 1995 · 21 September 1995

• Diary · 24 August 1995

• Newland Park · 13 May 1993

• Poem: ‘Cadmus and the Dragon’ · 8 April 1993

• Donegal Diary · 8 October 1992

• Protestant Guilt · 9 April 1992

  • Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being by Ted Hughes

• Three Poems · 7 March 1991

• Three Poems · 11 January 1990

• Out of the closet · 29 October 1987

  • Emily Dickinson by Helen McNeil
  • Emily Dickinson: Looking to Canaan by John Robinson
  • Emily Dickinson: A Poet’s Grammar by Christanne Miller
  • Emily Dickinson: The Poet on the Second Story by Jerome Loving

• Poem: ‘I am nature’ · 24 July 1986

• Dreadful Sentiments · 3 April 1986

  • The Collected Letters of W.B. Yeats. Vol. I: 1865-1895 edited by John Kelly and Eric Domville

• Poem: ‘Fivemiletown’ · 20 February 1986

• Risks · 1 August 1985

  • On the Contrary by Miroslav Holub, translated by Ewald Osers
  • The Lamentation of the Dead by Peter Levi
  • Collected Poems by Peter Levi
  • Elegies by Douglas Dunn
  • Poems: 1963-1983 by Michael Longley
  • Making for the Open: The Chatto Book of Post-Feminist Poetry edited by Carol Rumens
  • Direct Dialling by Carol Rumens
  • The Man Named East by Peter Redgrove

• Four Poems · 23 May 1985

• The Case for Geoffrey Hill · 4 April 1985

  • Geoffrey Hill: Essays on his Work edited by Peter Robinson

• Poem: ‘At Mill with Slaves’ · 21 February 1985

• Two Poems · 6 September 1984

• The Road to Sligo · 17 May 1984

  • Poetry and Metamorphosis by Charles Tomlinson
  • Translations by Charles Tomlinson
  • Conversation with the Prince by Tadeusz Rozewicz, translated by Adam Czerniawski
  • Passions and Impressions by Pablo Neruda, translated by Margaret Sayers Peden
  • An Empty Room by Leopold Staff, translated by Adam Czerniawski

• Oscar and Constance · 17 November 1983

  • The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde by Peter Ackroyd
  • The Importance of Being Constance: A Biography of Oscar Wilde’s Wife by Joyce Bentley
  • Mrs Oscar Wilde: A Woman of Some Importance by Anne Clark Amor

• Poem: ‘Yes, The Maternity Unit’ · 5 May 1983

• In an English market · 3 March 1983

  • Nothing Sacred: Selected Writings by Angela Carter

• Poem: ‘Foot Patrol, Fermanagh’ · 10 January 1983

• Poem: ‘The Argument at Great Tew’ · 4 November 1982

• Poem: ‘Oxford v. Cambridge v. Birmingham etc’ · 2 September 1982

• Faculty at War · 17 June 1982

  • Re-Reading English edited by Peter Widdowson
  • Against Criticism by Iain McGilchrist

• Paisley’s Progress · 1 April 1982

• Britishmen · 5 November 1981

  • Too Long a Sacrifice: Life and Death in Northern Ireland since 1969 by Jack Holland
  • A History of Northern Ireland by Patrick Buckland

• Poem: ‘Presbyterian Study’ · 7 August 1980

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