Thomas Neilson Paulin (born 25 January 1949 in
Leeds
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, England) is a Northern Irish poet and critic of film, music and literature. He lives in England, where he was the G. M. Young Lecturer in English Literature at
Hertford College, Oxford
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.
Early life
While he was still young, Paulin's Northern Irish
Protestant
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mother and English father moved from Leeds to
Belfast
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and Paulin grew up in a middle class area of the city. According to Paulin, his parents, a doctor and headmaster, held "vaguely socialist liberal views". While still a teenager, Paulin joined the
Trotskyist
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Socialist Labour League.
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, ''The Guardian
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Paulin was educated at
Annadale Grammar School,
Hull University
, mottoeng = Bearing the Torch f learning, established = 1927 – University College Hull1954 – university status
, type = Public
, endowment = £18.8 million (2016)
, budget = £190 million ...
and
Lincoln College, Oxford.
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Work
From 1972 to 1994, he worked at the University of Nottingham
, mottoeng = A city is built on wisdom
, established = 1798 – teacher training college1881 – University College Nottingham1948 – university status
, type = Public
, chancellor ...
, first as a lecturer and then as a Reader
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* A card reader, for extracting data from various forms of ...
of Poetry. In 1977, he won the Somerset Maugham prize for his poetry collection ''A State of Justice'' and later established his reputation as a literary critic with work such as ''Minotaur: Poetry and the Nation State'' (1992). He has championed the work of literary and social critic William Hazlitt
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and has taken part in a campaign which succeeded in having Hazlitt's gravestone refurbished.
Paulin is considered to be among a group of writers from a Unionist background "who have attempted to recover the radical Protestant republican
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** Republicanism, the ideology in support of republics or agains ...
heritage of the eighteenth century to challenge orthodox concepts" of Northern Irish Protestant identity. His passionate arguments and desire for a political poetry hails from the influence of John Milton, according to critic Jonathan Hufstader, though his outrage "often consumes itself in congested anger".BBC #REDIRECT BBC #REDIRECT BBC
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) decided to make Field Day a permanent enterprise. Thus, to qualify for financial support from both the Northern Irish and the Irish governments, they expanded the governing board from the original two members to six: Friel, Rea, Paulin,
was "a Zionist government".