David-Antoine Williams

The Life of Words

Etymology and Modern Poetry

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Produktbeschreibung

Studies the role that etymologies and etymological thinking have played in the works of English language poets including Seamus Heaney, R. F. Langley, J. H. Prynne, Geoffrey Hill, and Paul Muldoon.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 155mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 604g
• ISBN-13: 9780198812470
• ISBN-10: 0198812477
• Artikelnr.: 58408052

Autorenporträt

David-Antoine Williams is Associate Professor of English at St Jerome's University in the University of Waterloo. He was educated at Harvard University, The University of St Andrews, and Balliol College, Oxford. His previous book, Defending Poetry: Art and Ethics in Joseph Brodsky, Seamus Heaney, and Geoffrey Hill, was published by Oxford University Press in 2010.

Inhaltsangabe

Proem
1: Origins
2: Adaptations in the Age of the Arbitrary
3: Etymological Recirculation in Seamus Heaney, R. F. Langley, and J. H. Prynne
4: Geoffrey Hill's Etymological Crux
5: Paul Muldoon's Etymological Thread
Afterword: 'And it ends right here'