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Studies the work of Seamus Heaney and Goeffrey Hill to present new perspectives on the way literature communicates moral knowledge.
List of contents
- Introduction
- 1: Poetic Examples
- 2: The Exemplary Seamus Heaney
- 3: Exemplary Readership in Heaney's Prose
- 4: The Exemplary Poetry of Geoffrey Hill
- 5: The Exemplary Prose of Geoffrey Hill
- 6: Exemplary Qualifications
- Bibliography
About the author
Bridget Vincent is an Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary Poetry at the University of Nottingham. After completing a PhD at Cambridge University as a General Sir John Monash Scholar, she taught at Selwyn College and Magdalene College. She then held a McKenzie Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the University of Melbourne and a Postdoctoral Research Associateship at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge. Her research lies in the field of twentieth-century British and Irish literature, with particular emphases on poetics, modernism, and the civic role of writing. She has published on modern poetry in the Modern Language Review, Philosophy and Literature, Diogenes and the MLR Yearbook of English Studies. She was recently awarded a British Academy Rising Star grant for a project on writing and attention, which considers the role of literature in the age of digital distraction and misinformation.
Summary
Studies the work of Seamus Heaney and Goeffrey Hill to present new perspectives on the way literature communicates moral knowledge.
Additional text
Bridget Vincent's Moral Authority in Seamus Heaney and Geoffrey Hill provides a paradigmatic, readable and intelligible account of exemplarity. It is a most welcome addition to critical work on Heaney and Hill ... The book resoundingly sets out the stall for future studies of moral authority and exemplarity in poetry.
