Without Title

Without Title PDF Author: Geoffrey Hill
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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

Without Title

Without Title PDF Author: Geoffrey Hill
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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

The Book of Baruch by the Gnostic Justin

The Book of Baruch by the Gnostic Justin PDF Author: Geoffrey Hill
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780198829522
Category : POETRY
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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At his death in 2016, Geoffrey Hill left behind The Book of Baruch by the Gnostic Justin, his last work, a sequence of more than 270 poems, to be published posthumously as his final statement. Written in long lines of variable length, with much off-rhyme and internal rhyme, the verse-form of the book stands at the opposite end from the ones developed in the late Daybooks of Broken Hierarchies (2013), where he explored highly taut constructions such as Sapphic meter, figure-poems, fixed rhyming strophes, and others. The looser metrical plan of the new book admits an enormous range of tones of voices. Thematically, the work is a summa of a lifetime's meditation on the nature of poetry. A riot of similes about the poetic art makes a passionate claim for the enduring strangeness of poetry in the midst of its evident helplessness. The relation between art and spirituality is another connecting thread. In antiquity, Justin's gnostic Book of Baruch was identified as the 'worst of heresies, ' and the use of it in Hill's poem, as well as the references to alchemy, heterodox theological speculation, and the formal logics of mathematics, music, and philosophy are made coolly, as art and as emblems for our inadequate and perplexed grasp of time, fate, and eternity. A final set of themes is autobiographical, including Hill's childhood, the bombing of London, his late trip to Germany, his alarm and anger at Brexit, and his sense of decline and of death close at hand. It is a great work, and in Hill's oeuvre it is a uniquely welcoming work, open to all comers.

Speech! Speech!

Speech! Speech! PDF 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.

Geoffrey Hill

Geoffrey Hill PDF Author: John Lyon
Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
ISBN: 0199586608
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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A collection of scholarly essays on Geoffrey Hill, including pioneering work by Rowan Williams and Christopher Ricks, which provides insights into the cultural, literary, political, and theological complexities of a figure thought by many to be the finest living English poet.

National Geographic Bird Coloration

National Geographic Bird Coloration PDF 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.

Broken Hierarchies

Broken Hierarchies PDF 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.

Canaan

Canaan PDF 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."

The Triumph of Love

The Triumph of Love PDF 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.

New & Collected Poems, 1952-1992

New & Collected Poems, 1952-1992 PDF Author: Geoffrey Hill
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618001880
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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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.

Tenebrae

Tenebrae PDF Author: Geoffrey Hill
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 56

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