Defending poetry
Subtitle: art and ethics in Joseph Brodsky, Seamus Heaney, and Geoffrey Hill
By: David-Antoine Williams
Series: Oxford English monographs; Oxford English monographs
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780199583546
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; Ethics in literature
Description: Through readings of the poems and prose essays of Joseph Brodsky Seamus Heaney, and Geoffrey Hill, 'Defending Poetry' makes a timely intervention in current debates about literature's ethics, arguing that any ethics of literature ought to take into account not only poetry, but also the writings of poets on the value of poetry.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [218]-231) and index.
Table of contents: title: 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; title: 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; title: Seamus Heaney : beyond the "dialect of the tribe". Redresses ; Soundings ; Crossings ; Connections ; Translations; title: Geoffrey Hill : a "question of value". The endurance of value ; The value of endurance ; Memorizing memorializing ; Silence and suffering ; Weight of the word.