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The Yeatsian refrain in Paul Muldoon's Moy Sand and Gravel.(William Butler Yeats' poetry)

Writing about the work of the Northern Irish poet Paul Muldoon, Shane Murphy notes that, because of Muldoon's "precocious word-play and linguistic experimentation," his verse "has come to be seen as deploying reflexive, fragmentary fictions suited to postmodernity" (191). Muldoon's affinity for such verbal pyrotechnics and poetic fictions has led critics to view him as working in a Joycean tradition. Robert Faggen argues, for example, that Joyce is usually thought to be Muldoon's literary predecessor, because Muldoon's work displays a marked "impulse to [...] Joycean play in exile and cunning and the joy of language," especially in his longer journey poems (245). More ...

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