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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Modern Humanities Research Association
2015
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| Online Access: | https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/32238/ |