Geoffrey Hill's later work

Geoffrey Hill's later work

Author: Alex Wylie

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2019-09-12

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 1526124963

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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.


Clavics

Clavics

Author: Geoffrey Hill

Publisher:

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781907587115

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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.


Geoffrey Hill

Geoffrey Hill

Author: John Lyon

Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)

Published: 2012-06-14

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 0199586608

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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.


The Book of Baruch by the Gnostic Justin

The Book of Baruch by the Gnostic Justin

Author: Geoffrey Hill

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780198829522

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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.


Moral Authority in Seamus Heaney and Geoffrey Hill

Moral Authority in Seamus Heaney and Geoffrey Hill

Author: Bridget Vincent

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2022-02-17

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 0192644254

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How do poems communicate moral ideas? Can they express concepts in ways that are unique and impossible to replicate in other forms of writing? This book explores these questions by turning to two of the late twentieth century's most important poets: Seamus Heaney and Geoffrey Hill. Their work shows that a poem can act as an example of a moral concept, rather than simply a description or discussion of it. Exploring these two poets via their shared preoccupation with poetry's moral exemplarity opens up new perspectives on their work. The concept of exemplarity is shown to play an important role in these poets' most significant preoccupations, from moral complicity to the nature of lyric speech to literary influence to memorialisation, responsibility, and aesthetic autonomy. Through this new analysis of poetry, critical prose, drama, and archival materials, this book offers a major new study of ethics in the later period of these two writers—including recent underexplored posthumous works. In turn, the book also makes an important intervention in larger debates about literature and morality, and about the field of ethical criticism itself: this is the first book-length study to expand ethical criticism beyond its customary narrative focus. The ethical criticism of fiction is often an exercise in methodological advocacy, urging the use of more literary examples in moral philosophy. As this book shows, including poetry among these examples introduces new, lyric-inflected caveats about the use of literature as a form of moral example: caveats which remain invisible in narrative-centred ethical criticism.


Broken Hierarchies

Broken Hierarchies

Author: Geoffrey Hill

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2013-11

Total Pages: 989

ISBN-13: 0199605890

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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.


New & Collected Poems, 1952-1992

New & Collected Poems, 1952-1992

Author: Geoffrey Hill

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780618001880

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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.


Odi Barbare

Odi Barbare

Author: Geoffrey Hill

Publisher:

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 60

ISBN-13: 9780956543257

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Odi Barbare is the second in Geoffrey Hill's sequence The Daybooks, and the third to be published. It was preceded by Daybooks III: Oraclau Oracles (2010) and Daybooks IV: Clavics (2011). The others in the series, to appear in the Collected Poems 1952-2012 from Oxford University Press in 2013, are: Al Tempo de' Tremuoti and Liber Illustrium Virorum. In the present sequence Hill uses the 'Sapphic' verse form - 're-cadencing' the example of Sir Philip Sidney - with extraordinary discipline and expressive energy to address 'this dyingTime that bends so beautifully around things' and now beats back 'more than it delivers', work that requires 'intelligent patience' but wants the time such patience needs.


New and Collected Poems

New and Collected Poems

Author: Richard Wilbur

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13: 9780156654913

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A collection including six earlier volumes of Wilbur's poetry, twenty-seven new poems, and a cantata.