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Crusoe's Secret is a wide-ranging collection of essays on major authors and texts from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. More than a loose gathering, it offers a series of explorations and readings in the culture of English dissent, whether focussed on canonical works - Paradise Lost, Robinson Crusoe, Clarissa - or moving between epic and novel, lyric, tract and drama. Tom Paulin engages with the great dissenting voices from Bunyan to D. H. Lawrence, and he casts new light on others - such as Clare or Kipling or Hopkins - whose work was touched by dissent, often in secretly generative or transformative ways. Crusoe's Secret continues the investigations of Day-Star of Liberty, Paulin's previous study of William Hazlitt and his milieu, and it fans out to include salient Irish examples: Sheridan and Synge, Yeats, Joyce and Heaney.

The first instalment of Tom Paulin's poem about World War II. Affirming the struggle and memory of a generation upon whom the doors of living memory are now closing, it looks at the relation of art to war and to questions of national identity, the search for peace and for a shared civic culture.

Tom Paulin's latest poetry collection is his first offering in five years. The 'wind dog' is a broken rainbow; here it serves as a bridge into childhood where the primacy of the ear - 'the only true reader' - and the music of words is both demonstrated and celebrated.