- Description
- 1 online resource (xi, 240 p.)
- Series Statement
- Oxford English monographs
- Uniform Title
- Defending poetry (Online)
- Oxford English monographs.
- Alternative Title
- Defending poetry (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [218]-231) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Ethics, literature, and the place of poetry. The case against ; The "ethical turn" ; Poetry and ethics ; Defending poetry ; T.S. Eliot and the modernist defence ; A duty to language : the example of Eliot ; Learning from Eliot -- Joseph Brodsky : a "peremptory trust in words". Placing Brodsky ; The state v. Brodsky ; The poet v. society ; The poem and the person, face to face -- Seamus Heaney : beyond the "dialect of the tribe". Redresses ; Soundings ; Crossings ; Connections ; Translations -- Geoffrey Hill : a "question of value". The endurance of value ; The value of endurance ; Memorizing memorializing ; Silence and suffering ; Weight of the word.
- LCCN
- 2010933181
- OCLC
- ssj0000514692
- Author
Williams, David-Antoine, 1978-
- Title
Defending poetry [electronic resource] : art and ethics in Joseph Brodsky, Seamus Heaney, and Geoffrey Hill / David-Antoine Williams.
- Imprint
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
- Series
Oxford English monographs
Oxford English monographs.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [218]-231) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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