Poethics : twentieth-century apologia in T.S. Eliot, Joseph Brodsky, Seamus Heaney and Geoffrey Hill

This thesis explores a strain in twentieth-century ethical reflection: the writings of poets on the social and spiritual value of their art. Beginning with T. S. Eliot's idea of 'poetic integrity', and tracing its use and development in the prose and poems ofJoseph Brodsky, Seamus Hea...

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Main Author: Williams, David-Antoine
Published: University of Oxford 2006
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.487153