Geoffrey Hill, Hill

The Enemy's Country

Words, Contexture, and Other Circumstances of Language

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Produktbeschreibung

A collection of essays examining circumstances and conditions of poets' work. With Dryden as a central figure, the author describes the perplexities and felicity of genius in writers such as Donne, Hobbes and Marvell.

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Is poetry the distinctively free and self-contained form of language it has so often been called? Focusing on Dryden, but also looking at writers such as Donne, Hobbes, Marvell, and Pound, Geoffrey Hill examines the real conditions of poets' work, grounded as it is in the mundane drudgery and insecurity of historical existence. With humour and rigour, The Enemy's Country enacts the struggle of poetry for truth and meaning amid `the common practice of men'.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juli 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 149mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 328g
• ISBN-13: 9780198112167
• ISBN-10: 0198112165
• Artikelnr.: 39143434

Autorenporträt

Geoffrey Hill has won prizes for his poetry, including the Hawthornden Prize and the Whitbread Award.

Inhaltsangabe

A Note on the Title
A Note on References in the Text
1. Unhappy Circumstances
2. The Tartar's Bow and the Bow of Ulysses
3. Caveats Enough in their Own Walks
4. Dryden's Prize-Song
5. "Envoi: 1919"
Notes
Index