Collected Critical Writings
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| Rating | : | 4.41 (510 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0199234485 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 815 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-09-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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Bradley). Wilson has called "probably the best writer alive, in verse or in prose." In his criticism Hill ranges widely, investigating both poets (including Jonson, Dryden, Hopkins, Whitman, Eliot, and Yeats ) and prose writers (such as Tyndale, Clarendon, Hobbes, Burton, Emerson, and F. The Collected Critical Writings gathers more than forty years of Hill's published criticism, in a revised final form, and also adds much new work. Others confront the problems of language and the nature of value directly, as in "Our Word is Our Bond", "Language, Suffering, and Value", and "Poetry and Value". It will serve as the canonical volume of criticism by Hill, the pre-eminent poet-critic whom A. In all his criticism, Hill reveals literature to be an essential arena of civic intelligence.. A number of the essays have alrea
Michael Greenebaum said A Complex but Decent Respect for Language. Students of Hill should know that there is much in this "Collected" that does not appear in his previously published volumes. It is dense and tough going (and has the virtue of making Hill's great poetry appear pellucid). However, the rewards are great if one reads the prose in the same way one would read the poetry -- pausing after the difficult sentences, struggling with the references, working through the knots. I find the newer, previously unpublished work more congenial than the earlier essays. Just as Hill seems to have discovered a new kind of fluency in his poetry in the '90s, so too his prose seem. "Alienated Majesty" Hannah M. Vanderhart is a phrase from Thoreau which Hill considers as a springboard in the final group of essays in this volume (essays addressing poetics of Emerson, Hopkins, Eliot, and Whitman, among others).While I'm thrilled to have Hill's essays all in one place as reference, I admit, they are weary going. I certainly agree with the first reviewer: the terse, compressed language of these essays makes Hill's poetry appear in its true form: seriously beautiful poetry. Modern readers who complain over the difficulty of Hill's poetry need not bother with this volume, in this collection, Hill is intertextual on a very serious . Fred C. Dobbs said dull, boring. Pedantic, dull, boring,arrogant, condescending, written to impress other academics, those strangely deformed souls.
He is also Honorary Fellow of Keble College, Oxford; Honorary Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge; Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature; and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. From 1988 to 2006 he taught as a University Professor and Professor of Literature and Religion at Boston University. Born in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire in 1932, Geoffrey Hill is the author of a dozen books of poetry. He cur
"If you are allowed one work of literary criticism to be marooned with on a desert island, take Geoffrey Hill's Collected Critical Writings, painstakingly edited by Kenneth Haynes." --Christianity and Literature