Broken Hierarchies: Poems 1952-2012

by Geoffrey Hill, Kenneth Haynes

Overview

Broken Hierarchies collects twenty books of poems by Geoffrey Hill, written over sixty years, and presents them in their definitive form. Four of these books (Ludo, Expostulations on the Volcano, Liber Illustrium Virorum, and Al Tempo de' Tremuoti) have never before appeared in print, and three of them (Hymns to Our Lady of Chartres, Pindarics, and Clavics) have been greatly revised and expanded.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199605897
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	01/28/2014
Pages:	988
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.30(h) x 2.60(d)

About the Author

Geoffrey Hill, the son of a police constable, was born in Worcestershire in 1932. He was educated at Bromsgrove County High School and at Keble College, Oxford. After teaching for more than thirty years in England, first at Leeds and subsequently at Cambridge, he became Professor of Literature and Religion at Boston University in Massachusetts, where he was also founding co-director of the Editorial Institute. In 2010 he was elected Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford.

Table of Contents

FOR THE UNFALLEN (1959)GenesisGod s Little MountainHoly ThursdayMerlinThe Bidden GuestIn Memory of Jane FraserThe Turtle DoveThe Troublesome ReignSolomon s MinesThe Distant Fury of BattleAsmodeusRequiem for the Plantagenet KingsTwo Formal ElegiesMetamorphosesPicture of a NativityCanticle for Good FridayThe GuardiansThe White ShipWreathsElegiac StanzasAfter CumaeLittle ApocalypseThe BibliographersOf Commerce and SocietyDoctor FaustusA PastoralOrpheus and EurydiceIn Piam MemoriamTo the (Supposed) PatronKING LOG (1968)Ovid in the Third ReichAnnunciationsLocust SongsI Had Hope When Violence Was Ceas tSeptember SongAn Order of ServiceThe HumanistFuneral MusicFour Poems Regarding the Endurance of PoetsThe Imaginative LifeThe Assisi FragmentsHistory as PoetrySoliloquiesCowan BridgeFantasia on HorburyThree Baroque MeditationsThe Songbook of Sebastian ArrurruzMERCIAN HYMNS (1971)I The Naming of OffaII The Naming of OffaIII The Crowning of OffaIv The Crowning of OffaV The Crowning of OffaVI The Childhood of OffaVII The Kingdom of OffaVIII Offa s LeechdomIX Offa s Book of the DeadX Offa s LawsXI Offa s CoinsXII Offa s CoinsXIII Offa s CoinsXIV Offa s LawsXV Offa s BestiaryXVI Offa s SwordXVII Offa s Journey to RomeXVIII Offa s Journey to RomeXIX Offa s LawsXX Offa s Defence of the English PeopleXXI The Kingdom of OffaXXII Offa s Second Defence of the English PeopleXXIII Opus AnglicanumXXIV Opus AnglicanumXXV Opus AnglicanumXXVI Offa s BestiaryXXVII The Death of OffaXXVIII The Death of OffaXXIX The Death of OffaXXX The Death of OffaTENEBRAE (1978)The Pentecost CastleLachrimaeAn Apology for the Revival of Christian Architecture in EnglandTwo Chorale-PreludesA Pre-Raphaelite NotebookTerribilis Est Locus IsteVeni CoronaberisFlorentinesChristmas TreesTenebraeTHE MYSTERY OF THE CHARITY OF CHARLES PEGUY (1983)HYMNS TO OUR LADY OF CHARTRES (1982 2012)CANAAN (1996)To the High Court of Parliament ( Where s probity in this )That Man as a Rational Animal Desires the Knowledge Which Is His PerfectionSobieski s ShieldOf Coming into Being and Passing AwayDe AnimaWhether the Virtues Are EmotionsWhether Moral Virtue Comes by HabituationRitornelliTo William Cobbett: In AbsentiaCanaanDark-Land ( Aspiring Grantham )Mysticism and Democracy ( You see the terrain )Scenes with HarlequinsPostludeAlgabalMysticism and Democracy ( Do not stand witness )Dark-Land ( Wherein Wesley stood )To the Nieuport ScoutParentalia ( The here-and-now finds vigil )RespublicaDe Jure Belli ac PacisCycleSorrelParentalia ( Go your ways )Mysticism and Democracy (To the Evangelicals )Churchill s FuneralTo the High Court of Parliament ( Keep what in repair )PisgahTo John Constable: In AbsentiaDark-Land ( Are these last things )Mysticism and Democracy ( Ill-conceived, ill-ordained )Ezekiel s WheelPsalms of AssizeA Song of DegreesOf Constancy and MeasureTo William Law: In AbsentiaConcerning InheritanceMysticism and Democracy ( Great gifts foreclosed on )To the High Court of Parliament ( who could outbalance )THE TRIUMPH OF LOVE (1998)SPEECH! SPEECH! (2000)THE ORCHARDS OF SYON (2002)SCENES FROM COMUS (2005)The Argument of the MasqueCourtly Masquing DancesA Description of the AntimasqueWITHOUT TITLE (2006)Improvisation on O Welt ich muss dich lassenWithout TitleChromatic TunesIn Ipsley Church Lane 1The Jumping BoyOn the Reality of the SymbolInsert HereTu B ShevatChildren s GamesTo Lucien Richard: On SufferingWild Clematis in WinterOffertorium: December 2002Epiphany at HurcottEpiphany at Saint Mary and All SaintsDiscourse: For Stanley RosenIn Ipsley Church Lane 2Improvisations for Jimi HendrixTo the Teller of FortunesEx PropertioArsOn the Sophoclean Moment in English PoetryIn the Valley of the ArrowImprovisations for Hart CraneIn Ipsley Church Lane 3Offertorium: Suffolk, July 2003From the AnnalsBroken HierarchiesThe StormLuxe, Calme et VolupteImprovisation on Warum ist uns das Licht gegeben?PINDARICS (2005 2012)A TREATISE OF CIVIL POWER (2007)The Minor ProphetsCitations ICitations IIOn Reading Milton and the English RevolutionHolbeinParallel LivesMasquesHarmonia SacraOn Reading Blake: Prophet Against EmpireTo the Lord Protector CromwellOn Reading Crowds and PowerA Cloud in AquilaIn Framlingham ChurchDe NecessitateAfter Reading Children of Albion (1969)Integer VitaeOn Looking Through 50 Jahre im Bild: Bundesrepublik DeutschlandA Precis or Memorandum of Civil PowerG. F. Handel, Opus 6An EmblemThe Peacock at AldertonIn Memoriam: Gillian RoseJohannes Brahms, Opus 2In Memoriam: Aleksander WatBefore SenilityOn Reading The Essayes or Counsels, Civill and MorallIn Memoriam: Ernst BarlachThe OathCodaLyric FragmentNachwortLUDO (2011)THE DAYBOOKS (2007 2012)I EXPOSTULATIONS ON THE VOLCANOII LIBER ILLUSTRIUM VIRORUMIII ORACLAUIV CLAVICSV ODI BARBAREVI AL TEMPO DE TREMUOTI

Editorial Reviews

"This stoic hardcover is as imposing as its contents...the cumulative brilliance and range of Hill's oeuvre make him unquestionably England's greatest living poet...This deeper examination of Broken Hierarchies reveals worldliness and visionary imagination." -Rain Taxi Review of Books

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