
Geoffrey Hill
Essays on his Later Work
Oxford University Press
1st Edition
Published on 14. June 2012
Book
Hardback
232 pages
978-0-19-958660-8 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Students and scholars of contemporary poetry
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
429 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-958660-8 (9780199586608)
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Persons
John Lyon is Reader in English Literature at the University of Bristol, and has published widely on Shakespeare and the early modern period, as well as on nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction and poetry. He has edited works by Kipling, Henry James, and Conrad for Penguin and OUP World's Classics, and is currently editing a volume of the Edinburgh edition of R.L. Stevenson.
Peter McDonald is a poet and critic, whose Collected Poems appear from Carcanet Press in 2012. He has published four volumes of criticism, and is currently editing for Longman the Complete Poems of W.B. Yeats. Since 1999, he has been Christopher Tower Student and Tutor in Poetry in the English Language at Christ church, Oxford.
Peter McDonald is a poet and critic, whose Collected Poems appear from Carcanet Press in 2012. He has published four volumes of criticism, and is currently editing for Longman the Complete Poems of W.B. Yeats. Since 1999, he has been Christopher Tower Student and Tutor in Poetry in the English Language at Christ church, Oxford.
Editor
Reader in English, University of Bristol
Christopher Tower Student and Tutor in Poetry in the English Language, Christ Church, University of Oxford
Content
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