Defending poetry

Description:

Through readings of the poems and prose essays of Joseph Brodsky Seamus Heaney, and 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.

subjects: Criticism and interpretation,  Ethics in literature,  Brodsky, joseph, 1940-1996,  Heaney, seamus, 1939-2013,  Poetry, history and criticism,  Poetry,  Moral and ethical aspects

People: Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996),  Seamus Heaney (1939-),  Geoffrey Hill