Defending Poetry
«Williams' prose style is graceful and exact ... Defending Poetry is especially appealing in its implicit protest to academic trends which ask us to read poetry in search of its (dis)contents, political or otherwise. Woven into Williams' good book is an appreciation for the intellectual and spiritual experience of reading -the dance of the intellect, the music of the language, the very look of words on the page, and above all the radical challenge to prevailing powers that caused Plato to banish poets from his ideal republic in the first place.»
Alex Shakespeare, Christianity and Literature
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. Les mer
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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.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Oxford University Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780199583546
- Utgivelsesår
- 2010
- Format
- 22 x 15 cm
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«Williams' prose style is graceful and exact ... Defending Poetry is especially appealing in its implicit protest to academic trends which ask us to read poetry in search of its (dis)contents, political or otherwise. Woven into Williams' good book is an appreciation for the intellectual and spiritual experience of reading -the dance of the intellect, the music of the language, the very look of words on the page, and above all the radical challenge to prevailing powers that caused Plato to banish poets from his ideal republic in the first place.»
Alex Shakespeare, Christianity and Literature
«informative and rewarding.»
Michael McKie, Essays in Criticism
«a very interesting argument indeed, and in his opening sections Williams defends it with vigour, sensitivity and an astonishing range of reference.»
Stephen Prickett, Times Literary Supplement