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Geoffrey Hill and his Contexts

by Piers Pennington (Volume editor) Matthew Sperling (Volume editor)
©2012 Edited Collection X, 258 Pages
Series: Modern Poetry, Volume 6

Summary

Geoffrey Hill is one of the most significant poets currently at work in the English language. The essays gathered in this book present a number of new contexts in which to explore a wide range of his writings, from the poems he wrote as an undergraduate to the recent volumes A Treatise of Civil Power (2007) and Collected Critical Writings (2008). Connections are made between the early and the later poetry, and between the poetry and the criticism, and archival materials are considered along with the published texts. The essays also make comparisons across disciplines, discussing Hill’s work in relation to theology, philosophy and intellectual history, to literature from other languages, and to the other arts. In doing so, they cast fresh light upon Hill’s dense, original and sometimes challenging writings, opening them up in new ways for all readers of his work.

Details

Pages
X, 258
Publication Year
2012
ISBN (PDF)
9783035302325
ISBN (Hardcover)
9783034301855
DOI
10.3726/978-3-0353-0232-5
Language
English
Publication date
2012 (February)
Keywords
Hills work in relation to theology, philosophy and intellectual history Milton and Eliot in the Work of Geoffrey Hill Music and History in Geoffrey Hill
Published
Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, 2011. X, 258 pp., 1 ill.

Biographical notes

Piers Pennington (Volume editor) Matthew Sperling (Volume editor)

Piers Pennington is completing a doctoral thesis on modern poetry at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Matthew Sperling is Fellow by Special Election in Modern English Literature at Keble College, Oxford. He is at work on a monograph on Geoffrey Hill, etymological thinking and the history of linguistic thought, and has published essays on the work of Roy Fisher and J.H. Prynne.

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