Defending poetry [electronic resource] : art and ethics in Joseph Brodsky, Seamus Heaney, and Geoffrey Hill / David-Antoine Williams. Williams, David-Antoine, 1978- Brodsky, Joseph, 1940-1996 Criticism and interpretation. Heaney, Seamus, 1939- Criticism and interpretation. Hill, Geoffrey Criticism and interpretation. Ethics in literature. PR508 821.91409353 22 Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on print version record. Through readings of the poems & prose essays of Joseph Brodsky Seamus Heaney, & Geoffrey 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. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010. 2010. 2010 Text 1 online resource (xi, 240 p.). http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199583546.001.0001 eng Oxford English monographs Oxford English monographs.