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Tom Paulin
Tom Paulin’s most recent book is Crusoe’s Secret. His study of poetic form, The Secret Life of Poems, will be published in January.
From the London Review dated 7 October 2004
“Perhaps controversially, Godson says that the ties Kevin McNamara and Clare Short had to their Irish backgrounds did not touch Blair, who was ‘little affected’ by his Ulster Protestant ancestry . . . But it could be argued that Blair’s continual insistence that he is right because he knows he is trustworthy and straight-talking – the narcissistic void at the heart of his political personality – is recognisably Ulster Protestant, as anyone who has studied its distinctive cultural form, the sermon, will realise.” [ read more . . . ]
Selected bibliography
- The Crusoe’s Secret: The Aesthetics of Dissent (2005) Buy this book
- Thomas Hardy (Poet to Poet Series) (2005)
- The Road to Inver (2004)
- The Invasion Handbook (2002)
- The Strange Museum (2002)
- William Hazlitt: The Fight and Other Writings edited by Tom Paulin (2000)
- The Wind Dog (1999)
- The Day-Star of Liberty: William Hazlitt’s Radical Style (1998)
- Writing to the Moment: Selected Critical Essays 1980-1996 (1997)
- Walking a Line (1994)
- Selected Poems 1972-1990 (1993)
- Minotaur: Poetry and the Nation State (1992)
- Seize the Fire: A version of Aeschylus’ Prometheus Bound (1990)
- The Faber Book of Vernacular Verse (editor) (1990)
- Fivemiletown (1987)
- The Hillsborough Script (1987)
- The Faber Book of Political Verse (editor) (1986)
- Thomas Hardy: The Poetry of Perception (1986)
- The Riot Act: A version of Sophocles’ Antigone (1985)
- Ireland and the English Crisis (1985)
- Liberty Tree (1983)
- A State of Justice (1977)
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In the LRB archive
Holy Boldness · 16 December 2004
- Glimpses of Glory: John Bunyan and English Dissent by Richard Greaves Buy this book
- Theology and Narrative in the Works of John Bunyan by Michael Davies Buy this book
- The Portable Bunyan: A Transnational History of ‘The Pilgrim’s Progress’ by Isabel Hofmeyr
Gentlemen and ladies came to see the poet’s cottage · 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
Jangling Monarchy · 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 · 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
Not currently in the LRB archive
O brambles, chain me too · 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
Diary · 16 September 1999
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