Acceptable Words: Essays on the Poetry of Geoffrey Hill - Rilegato

Wainwright, Jeffrey

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ISBN 10: 0719067545 ISBN 13: 9780719067549

Casa editrice: Manchester Univ Pr, 2006

Riassunto

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


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

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Book by Wainwright Jeffrey

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Manchester Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0719067545
• ISBN 13: 9780719067549
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 155