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Authors
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Geoffrey
Hill [828 HIL]
The Collected
Poems, 1985 brings together the first five volumes of poetry:
For the
Unfallen, 1959; King Log, 1968; Mercian Hymns, 1971; Tenebrae,
1979; The Mystery of the Charity of Charles Peguy, 1983. In
1997 Hill published Canaan, and another book of poems is already
on the way.
Geoffrey
Hill has translated Ibsen's grim religious drama, Brand, 1979
[839.826 IBS].
His critical
writing is dense and difficult, an agonized act of discrimination.
Both in its choice of topic and its general view of the poetic
act it is significant for Hill's work as a poet. The Lords
of Limit: Essays on Literature and Ideas, 1984 [809.849 HIL],
was followed by The Enemy's Country: Words, Contexture and
Other Circumstances of Language, 1991 [820.1 HIL].
Jeffrey
Wainwright's poems about Sebastian Muntzer are an interesting
example of Hill's methods applied elsewhere. See Wainwright's
Selected Poems, 1985 [828 WAI].
Classmarks
for Royal Holloway library are given in square brackets. To
check our holdings of these books, and to reserve items on
short loan, log
into ALEPH here.
Among
works on Geoffrey Hill see:
- Henry
Hart, The Poetry of Geoffrey Hill, Carbondale, Ill., 1986
[Univ. Lib.]. The first expository account.
- Sherry,
Vincent, The Uncommon Tongue; The Poetry and Criticism of
Geoffrey Hill, Ann Arbor, Mich., 1987 [Univ. Lib.]. A work
similar to Hart's.
- Robinson,
Peter, ed., Geoffrey Hill: Essays on his Work, 1985 [Univ.
Lib.]. A rather uneven collection of essays, but covering
every aspect of the work.
- C H
Sisson, 'Geoffrey Hill', The Avoidance of Literature, 1978
[Univ. Lib.]. A valuable essay because guarded.
- Agenda
30.1-2, Spring-Summer 1992. A sixtieth birthday issue with
some really valuable essays, notably those by John Bayley
and Clive Wilmer.
- Christopher
Ricks, The Force of Poetry, 1984 [820.1 RIC]. Contains two
dense, intelligent and challenging essays on Hill.
- Merle
Brown, Double Lyric: Divisiveness and Communal Creativity
in Recent English Poetry, 1980 [828.1 BRO]. Contains a good
essay on Hill.
- Andrew
Roberts, 'Variation and False Relation in Geoffrey Hill's
Tenebrae', Essays in Criticism 43, April 1993.
- Grevel
Lindop, 'Myth and Blood: The Poetry of Geoffrey Hill', Critical
Quarterly 26, Spring-Summer 1984.
Follow
this linkto the Geoffrey
Hill pages on the Internet Public Library Site, which
contains links to critical and biographical sites about the
poet.
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