Jeffrey Wainwright

Acceptable Words

Essays on the Poetry of Geoffrey Hill

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Produktbeschreibung

The most comprehensive and up-to-date critical work available on Geoffrey Hill Offers detailed readings of many poems, covering all Hill's volumes up to Scenes from Comus (2005) Also examines several poems yet to be made available in published form Hill is now frequently referred to as the best living English poet This is the only publication to cover Hill's astonishing late burst of creativity in the six volumes of verse published since 1996

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Geoffrey Hill has said that some great poetry 'recognises that words fail us'. These essays explore Hill's struggle over fifty years with the recalcitrance of language. This book seeks to show how all his work is marked by the quest for the right pitch of utterance whether it is sorrowing, angry, satiric or erotic. It shows how Hill's words are never lightly 'acceptable' but an ethical act, how he seeks out words he can stand by - words that are 'getting it right'. This book is the most comprehensive and up-to-date critical work on Geoffrey Hill so far, covering all his work up to 'Scenes from Comus' (2005), as well as some poems yet to appear in book form. It aims to contribute something to the understanding of his poetry among those who have followed it for many years and students and other readers encountering this major poet for the first time.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Januar 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 153mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 322g
• ISBN-13: 9780719067549
• ISBN-10: 0719067545
• Artikelnr.: 21091320

Autorenporträt

Jeffrey Wainwright is a poet and Professor of English at Manchester Metropolitan University

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Short Titles 1. 'Acceptable Words' 2. 'The speechless
dead': 'King Log' (1968) 3. Poet, lover, liar: 'Lachrimae' (1975) 4. 'Our
love is what we love to have': 'Tenebrae' (1978) 5. Things and words: 'The
Mystery of the Charity of Charles Péguy' (1983) 6. History as poetry:
'Churchill's Funeral' and 'De Jure Belli ac Pacis' (Canaan, 1996) 7. 'The
Triumph of Love' (1998) 8. 'Beauty is difficult': 'Speech! Speech!' (2000)
9. 'Here and there I pull a flower': 'The Orchards of Syon' (2002) 10. 'In
wintry solstice like the shorten'd light': 'Scenes from Comus' (2005) 11.
Afterword: '"I have not finished"' Notes and references Bibliography