Madoc (poem)
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Madoc is an 1805 epic poem composed by Robert Southey. It is based on the legend of Madoc, a supposed Welsh prince who fled internecine conflict and sailed to America in the 12th century. The origins
Title page of the third edition, 1812
Paul Muldoon
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Paul Muldoon is an Irish poet, born in 1951. He has published more than thirty collections and won a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the T. S. Eliot Prize. At Princeton University he has been both the H
Madoc (poem)
…becomes, in fact, the crowning effort of eighteenth-century English literature to deal poetically with the American Indian". In 1990 Northern Irish poet Paul Muldoon published his long poem Madoc: a Mystery, inspired by Southey's work and the events surrounding it. Muldoon's work takes as its premise the idea that…
Muldoon in 2018