Descripción
Subtitled A Mystery, this verse narrative collects several poems concerning the so-called Pantisocracy (meaning a state ruled equally by all), a utopian scheme devised and later abandoned by the 18th-century poet-philosophers Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey. What if they had indeed set up such an ideal community on the banks of the Susquehanna? That is the crux of this book's long and fascinating title poem, which depicts events via the mind's eye of one of Southey's reputed descendants.
The poems in this book also focus more directly on the legend of Madoc himself, the Welsh prince who some believe came to America 300 years before Columbus and sired a line of Welsh-speaking Indians.Author: Paul Muldoon
Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
Published: 06/01/1992
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 7.99h x 5.20w x 0.79d
ISBN13: 9780374523442
ISBN10: 0374523444
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | European | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Fiction | General
About the Author
Paul Muldoon was born in Northern Ireland in 1951. He lives with his family in New Jersey, where he chairs the Creative Writing Program at Princeton University. In 1999 he was elected Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford.
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