Book description
John Donne (1572-1631) forfeited his Parliamentary seat and was
briefly imprisoned when his secret marriage to Ann More was uncovered
in 1601. He spent the subsequent decade in poverty, trying to
rehabilitate his reputation. He entered the Church in 1615, and become
Dean of St Paul's. His first volume of poetry was published
posthumously in 1633. In this series, a contemporary poet selects and
introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the
personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the
editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an
accessible and passionate introduction to some of the greatest poets
of our literature.
Paul Muldoon was born in County Armagh in 1951. He read English
at Queen's University, Belfast, and published his first collection of
poems, New Weather, in 1973. He is the author of ten books of poetry,
including Moy Sand and Gravel (2002), for which he received the
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and Horse Latitudes (2006). A Fellow of the
Royal Society of Literature, Paul Muldoon was given an American
Academy of Arts and Letters award in 1996. Other recent awards include
the 1994 T. S. Eliot Prize, the 1997 Irish Times Poetry Prize, and the
2003 Griffin Prize.
