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Author: Geoffrey Hill
Publisher:
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Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 104

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Praise for Geoffrey Hill's newest collection of poems: "Without Title, his new collection, combines the force and freedom of Hill's narrative verse with a renewed faith in his masterly talents for form and wordplay. The result is alarmingly good; a collection of lyrics on the difficulties of ageing, the problems of belief and the vagaries of language bracketing a sequence of pindarics in which Hill, ostensibly responding to thoughts of the Italian poet Cesare Pavese, meditates at length on both their lives and considers the place of a poet in the world."-Tim Martin, Independent on Sunday

Author: Geoffrey Hill
Publisher: Counterpoint Press
ISBN: 9781582432403
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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With our minds and ears fouled by degraded public speech how do we begin to think and speak honestly? At a time when our common language has been made false and ugly, how does the artist find words to communicate truth and beauty? Geoffrey Hill addresses these questions in these poems.

Author: Geoffrey Edward Hill
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1426205716
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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Why is a cardinal red and a bluebird blue? How has color camouflage evolved? These are just a few of the fascinating questions explored in this work on coloration and plumage, and their key role in avian life. 200 full-color photos.

Author: Geoffrey Hill
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395924860
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 98

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Here is public poetry of uncommon moral urgency: it bears witness to the sufferings of the innocent at the hands of history and to the martyrdom of those who have dared look history in the eye. "Rich, quarrelsome...handsome and brutish...Hill's poetry is the major achievement of late-twentieth-century verse," says The New Criterion. "Canaan is one of the few serious books we will have to mark the millennium."

Author: Geoffrey Hill
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199605890
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 989

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Broken Hierarchies brings together twenty books of poems by Geoffrey Hill, offering a complete collection of his poetry from 1952-2012.

Author: Geoffrey Hill
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618001835
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 100

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In Geoffrey Hill's words, "The poet's job is to define and yet again define. If the poet doesn't make certain horrors appear horrible, who will?" This astonishing book is a protest against evil and a tribute to those who have had the courage to resist it.

Author: Geoffrey Hill
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781907587115
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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'Clavics' is intended as a tribute to early 17th-century poetry and music, in the form of an elegiac sequence for William Lawes, the Royalist musician killed at the Battle of Chester.

Author: Alex Wylie
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526124963
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 215

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An exploration of the later work of Geoffrey Hill, often described as ‘the greatest living poet’ in his lifetime. This book reads, interprets, evaluates, and sets in context the work of Hill’s prolific later period from 1996 to 2016, the year of his death.

Author: David-Antoine Williams
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192540548
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 314

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For centuries, investigations into the origins of words were entwined with investigations into the origins of humanity and the cosmos. With the development of modern etymological practice in the nineteenth century, however, many cherished etymologies were shown to be impossible, and the very idea of original 'true meaning' asserted in the etymology of 'etymology' declared a fallacy. Structural linguistics later held that the relationship between sound and meaning in language was 'arbitrary', or 'unmotivated', a truth that has survived with small modification until today. On the other hand, the relationship between sound and meaning has been a prime motivator of poems, at all times throughout history. The Life of Words studies a selection of poets inhabiting our 'Age of the Arbitrary', whose auditory-semantic sensibilities have additionally been motivated by a historical sense of the language, troubled as it may be by claims and counterclaims of 'fallacy' or 'true meaning'. Arguing that etymology activates peculiar kinds of epistemology in the modern poem, the book pays extended attention to poems by G. M. Hopkins, Anne Waldman, Ciaran Carson, and Anne Carson, and to the collected works of Geoffrey Hill, Paul Muldoon, Seamus Heaney, R. F. Langley, and J. H. Prynne.

Author: Stephen James
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1846311179
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 281

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What is the relationship between poetry and power? Should poetry be considered a mode of authority or an impotent medium? And why is it that the modern poets most commonly regarded as authoritative are precisely those whose works wrestle with a sense of artistic inadequacy? Such questions lie at the heart of Shades of Authority, prompting fresh insights into three of the most important poets of recent decades: Robert Lowell, Geoffrey Hill, and Seamus Heaney. Through attentive close readings, James shows how their responsiveness to matters of political and cultural import lends weight to the idea of poetry as authoritative utterance—but also how each is exercised by a sense of the limitations and liabilities of language itself.