New & collected poems: 1952 - 1992

This volume brings together the poems from Geoffrey Hill's earlier books - For the Unfallen (1959), King Log (1968), Mercian Hymns (1971), Tenebrae (1978), The Mystery of the Charity of Charles Peguy (1983), Hymns to Our Lady of Chartres (1984) - and a number of new poems and sequences of poems

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1. Verfasser: Hill, Geoffrey 1932-2016 (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Boston u.a. Houghton Mifflin 1994
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Zusammenfassung:This volume brings together the poems from Geoffrey Hill's earlier books - For the Unfallen (1959), King Log (1968), Mercian Hymns (1971), Tenebrae (1978), The Mystery of the Charity of Charles Peguy (1983), Hymns to Our Lady of Chartres (1984) - and a number of new poems and sequences of poems
Geoffrey Hill's poems are like those of no other living poet. Grand in their music, powerful in their impact, they are public poetry, poetry dealing with religion, with the state of England, poetry as a lamentation for the human condition. As A
Alvarez has written, "He is a myth-maker . . . in a language so thickened and strengthened as to give the continual effect of muscular effort . . . [He] leaves you not so much with statements to be understood intellectually as with physical states to be shared." Harold Bloom has described Hill as "the strongest British poet now alive ..
Beschreibung:XII, 228 S.
ISBN:0395680875
0395680867

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