Passionate Intelligence: The Poetry of Geoffrey Hill - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Passionate Intelligence: The Poetry of Geoffrey Hill write by E.M. Knottenbelt. This book was released on 2022-07-18. Passionate Intelligence: The Poetry of Geoffrey Hill available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Moral Authority in Seamus Heaney and Geoffrey Hill
Moral Authority in Seamus Heaney and Geoffrey Hill - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Moral Authority in Seamus Heaney and Geoffrey Hill write by Bridget Vincent. This book was released on 2022. Moral Authority in Seamus Heaney and Geoffrey Hill available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How do poems communicate moral ideas? Can they express concepts in ways that are unique and impossible to replicate in other forms of writing? This book explores these questions by turning to two of the late twentieth century's most important poets: Seamus Heaney and Geoffrey Hill. Their work shows that a poem can act as an example of a moral concept, rather than simply a description or discussion of it. Exploring these two poets via their shared preoccupation with poetry's moral exemplarity opens up new perspectives on their work. The concept of exemplarity is shown to play an important role in these poets' most significant preoccupations, from moral complicity to the nature of lyric speech to literary influence to memorialisation, responsibility, and aesthetic autonomy. Through this new analysis of poetry, critical prose, drama, and archival materials, this book offers a major new study of ethics in the later period of these two writers--including recent underexplored posthumous works. In turn, the book also makes an important intervention in larger debates about literature and morality, and about the field of ethical criticism itself: this is the first book-length study to expand ethical criticism beyond its customary narrative focus. The ethical criticism of fiction is often an exercise in methodological advocacy, urging the use of more literary examples in moral philosophy. As this book shows, including poetry among these examples introduces new, lyric-inflected caveats about the use of literature as a form of moral example: caveats which remain invisible in narrative-centred ethical criticism.
Shades of Authority
Shades of Authority - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Shades of Authority write by Stephen James. This book was released on 2007-01-01. Shades of Authority available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What is the relationship between poetry and power? Should poetry be considered a mode of authority or an impotent medium? And why is it that the modern poets most commonly regarded as authoritative are precisely those whose works wrestle with a sense of artistic inadequacy? Such questions lie at the heart of Shades of Authority, prompting fresh insights into three of the most important poets of recent decades: Robert Lowell, Geoffrey Hill, and Seamus Heaney. Through attentive close readings, James shows how their responsiveness to matters of political and cultural import lends weight to the idea of poetry as authoritative utterance—but also how each is exercised by a sense of the limitations and liabilities of language itself.
The Cambridge History of English Poetry
The Cambridge History of English Poetry - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cambridge History of English Poetry write by Michael O'Neill. This book was released on 2010-04-29. The Cambridge History of English Poetry available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Poetry written in English is uniquely powerful and suggestive in its capacity to surprise, unsettle, shock, console, and move. The Cambridge History of English Poetry offers sparklingly fresh and dynamic readings of an extraordinary range of poets and poems from Beowulf to Alice Oswald. An international team of experts explores how poets in England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland use language and to what effect, examining questions of form, tone, and voice; they comment, too, on how formal choices are inflected by the poet's time and place. The Cambridge History of English Poetry is the most comprehensive and authoritative history of the field from early medieval times to the present. It traces patterns of continuity, transformation, transition, and development. Covering a remarkable array of poets and poems, and featuring an extensive bibliography, the scope and depth of this major work of reference make it required reading for anyone interested in poetry.
Acceptable words
Acceptable words - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Acceptable words write by Jeffrey Wainwright. This book was released on 2013-07-19. Acceptable words available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Geoffrey Hill has said that some great poetry 'recognises that words fail us'. These essays explore Hill's struggle over fifty years with the recalcitrance of language. This book seeks to show how all his work is marked by the quest for the right pitch of utterance whether it is sorrowing, angry, satiric or erotic. It shows how Hill's words are never lightly 'acceptable' but an ethical act, how he seeks out words he can stand by - words that are 'getting it right'. This book is the most comprehensive and up-to-date critical work on Geoffrey Hill so far, covering all his work up to ‘Scenes from Comus’ (2005), as well as some poems yet to appear in book form. It aims to contribute something to the understanding of his poetry among those who have followed it for many years and students and other readers encountering this major poet for the first time.
