The exemplary poetry of Geoffrey Hill: authority and exemplarity in A Treatise of Civil Power

Geoffrey Hill's ethical anxieties turn on a tension between aesthetic autonomy and engagement with the polis, a tension illuminated by his adumbration of an exemplary poetics. ‘Exemplarity’ is characterized by a similar tension between intransitive and transitive activity, so that a poem can be...

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Main Author: Vincent, Bridget
Format: Article
Published: Modern Humanities Research Association 2015
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/32238/