{"product_id":"the-end-of-the-poem-oxford-lectures","title":"The End of the Poem (Oxford Lectures)","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn The End of the Poem  Paul Muldoon  \"the most significant English-language poet born since the Second World War\" (The Times Literary Supplement)  presents engaging  rigorous  and insightful explorations of a diverse group of poems  from Yeatss \"All Souls Night\" to Stevie Smiths \"I Remember\" to Fernando Pessoas \"Autopsychography.\" Here Muldoon reminds us that the word \"poem\" comes  via French  from the Latin and Greek: \"a thing made or created.\" He asks: Can a poem ever be a freestanding  discrete structure  or must it always interface with the whole of its authors bibliography--and biography? Muldoon explores the boundlessness  the illimitability  created by influence  what Robert Frost meant when he insisted that \"the way to read a poem in prose or verse is in the light of all the other poems ever written.\" And he writes of the boundaries or borders between writer and reader and the extent to which one determines the role of the other.  At the end  Muldoon returns to the most fruitful  and fraught  aspect of the phrase \"the end of the poem\": the interpretation that centers on the \"aim\" or \"function\" of a poem  and the question of whether or not the end of the poem is the beginning of criticism. Irreverent  deeply learned  often funny  and always stimulating  The End of the Poem is a vigorous and accessible approach to looking at poetry anew.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44986512310325,"sku":"ByrdShop_0374148104","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780374148102.jpg?v=1770908123","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-end-of-the-poem-oxford-lectures","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}