"e;All Will Be Swept Away"e;

The book offers the first comprehensive study of Paul Muldoon's mourning verse. Considering not only the celebrated elegies like "e;Yarrow,"e; "e;Incantata"e; or "e;Sillyhow Stride"e; but also the elegiac impulse as it develops throughout Muldoon's entire work, All Will Be Swept Away charts a large swathe of Muldoon's poetic landscape in order to show the complexity with which he approaches the themes of death and mourning. Using archival material as well as a vast array of theoretical apparatuses, the book unveils the psychological, literary and political undertones in his poetry, all the while attending to the operations of the poetic text: its form, its music and its capacity to console, warn and censure.