The offense of poetry - Adams, Hazard (University of Washington Press, 2007)
"A Robert B. Heilman book.". - Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction: Scandal and offense -- Attack -- Defense -- Gesture -- Drama -- Fiction -- Trope -- Vico and Blake: Poetic logic as offense -- Blake and Joyce: Friends in offense -- Joyce Cary's antitheticality and his politics of experience -- Seamus Heaney's criticism and the antithetical -- The double offense of great bad poetry; or, McGonagall apotheosized