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Geoffrey Hill and his Contexts: 6 New Edition
Author(s): Piers Pennington (Editor), Matthew Sperling
- Publisher: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
- Publication Date: 8 Dec. 2011
- Edition: New
- Language: English
- Print length: 268 pages
- ISBN-10: 3034301855
- ISBN-13: 9783034301855
Book Description
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.
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About the Author
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.
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.
