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Paul Muldoon (born June 20 , 1951 ) is a Poet from County Armagh , Northern Ireland . LIFE AND WORK Muldoon's poetry is known for difficulty, allusion, casual use of extremely obscure or archaic words, understated wit, Pun ning, and deft technique in meter and Slant Rhyme . Muldoon has lived in the United States since 1987 ; he teaches at Princeton University and is an Honorary Professor in the School of English at the University Of St Andrews . He held the chair of Professor Of Poetry at Oxford University for the five-year term 1999–2004, and he is an Honorary Fellow of Hertford College , Oxford . Until recently, Muldoon was often thought of as the second-most-eminent living poet in Northern Ireland, living in the shadow of his friend Seamus Heaney ; but his reputation has grown since he won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry . His other honours include 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 has two children - Dorothy and Asher - and lives in Griggstown, New Jersey. PUBLICATIONS In 2006, Muldoon's published books (with major collections starred) were:
Most of these volumes were collections of shorter poems. Often a single and considerably longer poem is placed at the end of a volume. Muldoon's most recent collections have, however, included more than one long poem. ''Madoc: A Mystery'', among Muldoon's most difficult works, is a book-length poem, which some consider Muldoon's masterpiece. It narrates in fractured sections an alternate history in which Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey come to America in order to found a Utopian community. (The poets had, in reality, discussed but never undertaken this journey; the title comes from Southey's poem ''Madoc'', about a legendary Welsh prince of That Name .) Muldoon has contributed the librettos for four operas by American composer '' ( 1992 ), ''Vera of Las Vegas'' ( 1996 ), '' Bandanna '' ( 1998 ), and ''The Antient Concert'' ( 2005 ). Muldoon has also edited a number of anthologies, written two children's books, translated the work of other authors, and published critical prose. These are, respectively:
AWARDS Muldoon has won the following major poetry awards:From
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