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.
| ISBN | 0199586608 | | Pages | 240 | | ISBN13 | 9780199586608
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 434 | | Publisher | Oxford University Press | | Published in | Oxford | | Imprint | Oxford University Press | | Height (mm) | 225 | | Format | Hardback | | Width (mm) | 149 | | Publication date | 14 Jun 2012 | | Spine width (mm) | 20 | | DEWEY | 821.914 | | Academic level | Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly | | DEWEY edition | DC23 | |
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Acknowledgements ; Abbreviations ; Introduction ; Hill's Unrelenting, Unreconciling Mind ; Recusant Hill ; Geoffrey Hill's Quartet ; On Being 'A Man of the World': Geoffrey Hill and Physicality ; The Impossibility of Death ; Geoffrey Hill's Eye Troubles ; Geoffrey Hill and Confession ; 'But to my Task': Work, Truth, and Metre in Later Hill ; A Bibliography of Geoffrey Hill
This volume contributes a valuable overview of Hill's career ... Highly recommended.
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