| Title | : | Selected Poems |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.99 (968 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0300164300 |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2010-04-06 |
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Geoffrey Hill’s poetry comprises one of the most uncompromising and visionary bodies of work written over the last fifty years. Imbued with the weight of history, morality, and language, his work reveals a deeply religious sensibility, a towering intellect, and an emotional complexity that are unrivaled in contemporary letters. Now, for the first time ever, readers can observe in one volume how Hill’s style took shape over time. This generous selection spans his career, beginning with poems from Hill’s astonishing debut, For the Unfallen, and following through to his stylistically distinct and critically acclaimed work Without Title. Including some of the poet’s strongest, most sensitive, and most brilliant pieces, this collection will reaffirm Hill’s reputation as “England’s best hope for the Nobel Prize.”
Editorial : From Publishers Weekly Is Hill the greatest living English poet? Many critics (including Harold Bloom) have said as much, since the 1970s, when a few dense books inspired transatlantic admiration. After four decades with just five books, the past 10 years have seen Hill offer six more, including a trio of long works some liken to Dante and Blake. This first selected since 1994 (and first since his move to Yale as his U.S. publisher) should get instant critical attention (and sustained academic adoption) even though it contains no new work. Here, entire, is Mercian Hymns, with its gorgeously medievalized evocation of a rural English upbringing. Here, complete, are all three recent long poems, with their erudite mix of elegy and jeremiad: Age of mass consent: go global with her, Hill admonishes himself in Speech! Speech! Challenge satellite failure, the primal/ violent day-star moody as Herod./ Forget nothing. Reprieve no one. Here are his late intimations of mortality: Last days,
In this way, the book helps familiarize the reader with concepts and vernacular of Hazelcast. It's so good to be able to look into a mirror--in the form of a book. Do this, click that, etc., a very no-nonsense approach. Yet he met his nemesis: Iraq. Our foster child's therapist recommended this book and it has been very helpful! It's provided valuable insights into our foster child's food obsessions.. Lazy authors/editors/publisher. I think it is incredibly unusual today to find an individual who can evoke the rare and dramatic in everyday life and to pull such marvelous wisdom and wit from it. Savage lays out it all out in his explosive new book "Government Zero: No Borders, No Language, No Culture". It has a prophylactic effect against the buildup of anger and helps handle stress. I do want to read the rest of the books to find out what happens.. Torrey has been gone for a number of years, but his legacy lives on. Coach fulton of the high school basketball team has always had trouble
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