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Geoffrey Hill: Essays on his Later Work
A collection of new essays on the remarkable work produced by the poet Geoffrey Hill since the mid-1990s. Hill is widely recognised as the finest living English poet and the quality of his recent publications has been matched by the pace at which he produces quantities of profound and startlingly original verse. This book brings together work on Hill by figures as diverse as Rowan Williams and Christopher Ricks, along with penetrating treatments of these late writings by younger scholars, in order to provide a series of fresh perspectives on some of the finest and most challenging poetry now being written. It explores topics including physicality, death, confession, and recusancy, and also contains a large-scale bibliography of Hill's writings, which will be invaluable to all those seeking to read more widely in the work of this fascinating and exceptional figure.
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Geoffrey Hill: Essays on his Later Work
A collection of new essays on the remarkable work produced by the poet Geoffrey Hill since the mid-1990s. Hill is widely recognised as the finest living English poet and the quality of his recent publications has been matched by the pace at which he produces quantities of profound and startlingly original verse. This book brings together work on Hill by figures as diverse as Rowan Williams and Christopher Ricks, along with penetrating treatments of these late writings by younger scholars, in order to provide a series of fresh perspectives on some of the finest and most challenging poetry now being written. It explores topics including physicality, death, confession, and recusancy, and also contains a large-scale bibliography of Hill's writings, which will be invaluable to all those seeking to read more widely in the work of this fascinating and exceptional figure.
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Geoffrey Hill: Essays on his Later Work

Geoffrey Hill: Essays on his Later Work

Geoffrey Hill: Essays on his Later Work

Geoffrey Hill: Essays on his Later Work

Overview

A collection of new essays on the remarkable work produced by the poet Geoffrey Hill since the mid-1990s. Hill is widely recognised as the finest living English poet and the quality of his recent publications has been matched by the pace at which he produces quantities of profound and startlingly original verse. This book brings together work on Hill by figures as diverse as Rowan Williams and Christopher Ricks, along with penetrating treatments of these late writings by younger scholars, in order to provide a series of fresh perspectives on some of the finest and most challenging poetry now being written. It explores topics including physicality, death, confession, and recusancy, and also contains a large-scale bibliography of Hill's writings, which will be invaluable to all those seeking to read more widely in the work of this fascinating and exceptional figure.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780199586608
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 09/07/2012
Pages: 232
Product dimensions: 8.50(w) x 5.50(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

John Lyon is Reader in English Literature at the University of Bristol, and has published widely on Shakespeare and the early modern period, as well as on nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction and poetry. He has edited works by Kipling, Henry James, and Conrad for Penguin and OUP World's Classics, and is currently editing a volume of the Edinburgh edition of R.L. Stevenson.

Peter McDonald is a poet and critic, whose Collected Poems appear from Carcanet Press in 2012. He has published four volumes of criticism, and is currently editing for Longman the Complete Poems of W.B. Yeats. Since 1999, he has been Christopher Tower Student and Tutor in Poetry in the English Language at Christ church, Oxford.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations viii

Notes on Contributors ix

Introduction John Lyon Peter McDonald 1

1 Hill's Unrelenting, Unreconciling Mind Christopher Ricks 6

2 Recusant Hill Brian Cummings 32

3 The Standing of Poetry: Geoffrey Hill's Quartet Rowan Williams 55

4 On Being 'a man of the world': Geoffrey Hill and Physicality Sophie Ratcliffe 70

5 'The Impossibility of Death' Jeffrey Wainwright 89

6 Geoffrey Hill's Eye Troubles John Lyon 112

7 Geoffrey Hill and Confession Kathryn Murphy 127

8 'But to my Task': Work, Truth, and Metre in Later Hill Peter McDonald 143

A Bibliography of the Works of Geoffrey Hill Kenneth Haynes 170

Index of Periodicals 205

Index of Poems 207

Index 217

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