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Defending Poetry - Art and Ethics in Joseph Brodsky, Seamus Heaney, and Geoffrey Hill (Hardcover)
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Defending Poetry - Art and Ethics in Joseph Brodsky, Seamus Heaney, and Geoffrey Hill (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford English Monographs
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Defending Poetry studies the tradition of poetic defence, or
apologia, as it has been pursued and developed by three of the
twentieth century's leading poet-critics: Joseph Brodsky, Seamus
Heaney, and Geoffrey Hill. It begins with an extended introduction
to philosophical debates over the ethical value of literature from
Plato to Levinas and continues by situating these three poets as in
one sense historically continuous with the defences of Horace,
Sidney, Coleridge, and Shelley, but also as drastically other. This
otherness is bounded on one side by the example of T. S. Eliot's
career-long contemplation of the ideal of poetic 'integrity', and
on the other by a collective recognition of the twentieth century's
great horrors, which seem to corrode all associations of art and
the good. Through close readings of the poems and prose essays of
Brodsky, Heaney, and 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.
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