|aDefending poetry|h[electronic resource] :|bart and ethics in Joseph Brodsky, Seamus Heaney, and Geoffrey Hill /|cDavid-Antoine Williams.
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|aOxford :|bOxford University Press,|c2010.
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|a1 online resource (xi, 240 p.).
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|aThrough readings of the poems & prose essays of Joseph Brodsky Seamus Heaney, & 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.
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|aDescription based on print version record.
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|aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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|aBrodsky, Joseph,|d1940-1996|xCriticism and interpretation.
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|aHeaney, Seamus,|d1939-|xCriticism and interpretation.
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