Paul Muldoon

Quick Facts

Full Name	Paul Muldoon
Occupation	Poet
Date Of Birth	Jun 20, 1951(1951-06-20)
Age	73
Birthplace	Portadown
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	Northern Ireland
Horoscope	Gemini

Paul Muldoon Biography

Paul Muldoon is one of the most popular and richest Poet who was born on June 20, 1951 in Portadown, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. Irish Poet Pulitzer Prize-winning well-known for collections like Moy Sand and Gravel, Meeting the British, Horse Latitudes as well as Hopewell Haiku. Poetry was his subject in Oxford University from 1999-2004.

He attended Queen’s University Belfast, where He made friends with his fellow Irish writer He studied at Queen’s University Belfast, where he made the acquaintance of fellow Irish poet Seamus Heaney…

Paul Muldoon (born 20 June 1951) is an Irish poet. He has published over thirty collections and won a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the T. S. Eliot Prize. He held the post of Oxford Professor of Poetry from 1999 to 2004. At Princeton University he is both the Howard G. B. Clark ’21 Professor in the Humanities and Founding Chair of the Lewis Center for the Arts. He has also served as president of the Poetry Society (UK) and Poetry Editor at The New Yorker.

In 1969, Muldoon read English at Queen’s University Belfast, where he met Seamus Heaney and became close to the Belfast Group of poets which included Michael Longley, Ciarán Carson, Medbh McGuckian and Frank Ormsby. Muldoon said of the experience, “I think it was fairly significant, certainly to me. It was exciting. But then I was 19, 20 years old, and at university, so everything was exciting, really.” Muldoon was not a strong student at Queens. He recalls “I had stopped. Really, I should have dropped out. I’d basically lost interest halfway through. Not because there weren’t great people teaching me, but I’d stopped going to lectures, and rather than doing the decent thing, I just hung around”. During his time at Queens, his first collection New Weather was published by Faber and Faber. He met his first wife, fellow student Anne-Marie Conway, and they were married after their graduation in 1973. Their marriage broke up in 1977.

He was married to Anne-Marie Conway in 1973. After his divorce, he got married to American writer Jean Hanff Korelitz, with whom he had two kids.

Paul Muldoon Net Worth

Paul Muldoon is one of the richest Poet from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Paul Muldoon 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He was the son of a teacher in a school as well as a farmer. He was raised as an Catholic within a Protestant part in Northern Ireland.

He wrote opera libretti and also lyrics for his rock group from New Jersey.

Madoc: A Mystery, exploring themes of colonisation, is among Muldoon’s most difficult works. It includes, as ‘poetry’, such non-literary constructions as maps and geometric diagrams. In the book Irish Poetry since 1950, John Goodby states it is “by common consent, the most complex poem in modern Irish literature […] – a massively ambitious, a historiographical metafiction”. The post-modern poem narrates, in 233 sections (the same number as the number of Native American tribes), an alternative history in which Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey come to America to found a utopian community. The two poets had, in reality, discussed but never undertaken this journey. Muldoon’s poem is inspired by Southey’s work Madoc, about a legendary Welsh prince of that name. Critics are divided over the poem’s success. Some are stunned by its scope and many others, such as John Banville, have professed themselves utterly baffled by it – feeling it to be wilfully obscure. Muldoon says of it: “I quite enjoy having fun. It’s part of how it is, and who we are.”

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In 2003, Muldoon won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. He has been awarded fellowships in the Royal Society of Literature and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; the 1994 T. S. Eliot Prize; the 1997 Irish Times Poetry Prize, and the 2003 Griffin International Prize for Excellence in Poetry. He was also shortlisted for the 2007 Poetry Now Award. Muldoon’s poems have been collected into four books, Selected Poems 1968–1986 (1986), New Selected Poems: 1968–1994 (1996), Poems 1968–1998 (2001) and Selected Poems 1968-2014 (2016). In September 2007 he was hired as poetry editor of The New Yorker.

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It’s a beautiful part of the world. It’s still the place that’s ‘burned into the retina’, and although I haven’t been back there since I left for university 30 years ago, it’s the place I consider to be my home. We were a fairly non-political household; my parents were nationalists, of course, but it was not something, as I recall, that was a major area of discussion. But there were patrols; an army presence; movements of troops; a sectarian divide. And that particular area was a nationalist enclave, while next door was the parish where the Orange Order was founded; we’d hear the drums on summer evenings. But I think my mother, in particular, may have tried to shelter us from it all. Besides, we didn’t really socialise a great deal. We were ‘blow- ins’ – arrivistes – new to the area, and didn’t have a lot of connections.

Where does Paul Muldoon live?

Since 1987 Muldoon has lived in the United States, where he is Howard G.B. Clark Professor of the Humanities and Founding Chair of the Peter B. Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University. Paul Muldoon lives with his wife and their two children near Princeton, New Jersey.

Where does Paul Muldoon teach?

Muldoon is the Howard G.B. Clark ’21 University Professor in the Humanities, professor of creative writing in the Lewis Center for the Arts and director of the Princeton Atelier. He has taught poetry at Princeton since 1987 and songwriting since 2013.

How old is Paul Muldoon?

70 years (June 20, 1951)

Why is Brownlee left?

Why Brownlee Left, as the title indicates, reports on a special case, a disappearance, an absence, the possibility of appearing somewhere else; a double sense of self, place and time that was there from the start. This mystery leaves a hermeneutic vacuum to be filled with meaning, a void to be lamented or welcomed.

What does the name Muldoon mean?

Muldoon is an anglicization of the Irish surname Ó Maoldúin, meaning “ descendant of the disciple of St. Duin “.