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Shades of authority : the poetry of Lowell, Hill and Heaney / Stephen James.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- James, Stephen, 1968- author.
- Series:
- Liverpool English texts and studies.
- Liverpool English texts and studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Authority in literature.
- English poetry--20th century--History and criticism.
- English poetry.
- American poetry--20th century--History and criticism.
- American poetry.
- Lowell, Robert, 1917-1977--Criticism and interpretation.
- Lowell, Robert.
- Hill, Geoffrey--Criticism and interpretation.
- Hill, Geoffrey.
- Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013--Criticism and interpretation.
- Heaney, Seamus.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 266 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 this study, prompting fresh insights into three of the most important poets of recent decades: Robert Lowell, Geoffrey Hill and Seamus Heaney. Through attentive close reading and the tracing of dominant motifs in each writer's works, James shows how their responsiveness to matters of political and cultural import lends weight to the idea of poetry as authoritative utterance, as a medium for speaking of and to the world in a persuasive, memorable manner. And yet, as James demonstrates, each poet is exercised by an awareness of his own cultural marginality, even by a sense of the limitations and liabilities of language itself.
- Contents:
- Title Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Notes on Citations; Introduction; Essays on Robert Lowell; Essays on Geoffrey Hill; Essays on Seamus Heaney; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Jul 2017).
- ISBN:
- 1-78138-838-5
- 1-84631-404-6
- OCLC:
- 476209614
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