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. Ethics, Literature, And The Place Of Poetry. The Case Against ; The Ethical Turn ; Poetry And Ethics ; Defending Poetry ; T.s. Eliot And The Modernist Defence ; A Duty To Language : The Example Of Eliot ; Learning From Eliot -- Joseph Brodsky : A Peremptory Trust In Words. Placing Brodsky ; The State V. Brodsky ; The Poet V. Society ; The Poem And The Person, Face To Face -- Seamus Heaney : Beyond The Dialect Of The Tribe. Redresses ; Soundings ; Crossings ; Connections ; Translations -- Geoffrey Hill : A Question Of Value. The Endurance Of Value ; The Value Of Endurance ; Memorizing Memorializing ; Silence And Suffering ; Weight Of The Word. Bibliographic Level Mode Of Issuance: Monograph Includes Bibliographical References And Index. English