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Shades of Authority: The Poetry of Lowell, Hill and Heaney

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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.
Request Code : ZLIBIO1643611
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Year:
2008
Publisher:
Liverpool University Press
Language:
English
Pages:
256
ISBN 10:
1846311179
ISBN 13:
9781846311178
ISBN:
1846311179,9781846311178
Series:
Liverpool English Texts & Studies

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