Moral Authority in Seamus Heaney and Geoffrey Hill

by Vincent, Bridget

• ISBN13: 9780198870920
• ISBN10: 0198870922
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2022-06-01
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Bridget Vincent, Assistant Professor in Modern and Contemporary Poetry, University of Nottingham

Bridget Vincent is an Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary Poetry at the University of Nottingham. After completing a PhD at Cambridge University as a General Sir John Monash Scholar, she taught at Selwyn College and Magdalene College. She then held a McKenzie Postdoctoral Research
Fellowship at the University of Melbourne and a Postdoctoral Research Associateship at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge. Her research lies in the field of twentieth-century British and Irish literature, with particular emphases on poetics, modernism, and the civic role of writing. She has
published on modern poetry in the Modern Language Review, Philosophy and Literature, Diogenes and the MLR Yearbook of English Studies. She was recently awarded a British Academy Rising Star grant for a project on writing and attention, which considers the role of literature in the age of digital
distraction and misinformation.