Jeffrey Wainwright

Acceptable words

Essays on the poetry of Geoffrey Hill

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Produktbeschreibung

'Acceptable words' comprises a series of highly individual essays covering the whole of Geoffrey Hill's poetry to date, including the remarkable late flowering of the years since 1996. The essays offer detailed readings of many poems whilst making many - often surprising - associations with history, philosophy, religion, art and music.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 220g
• ISBN-13: 9780719067556
• ISBN-10: 0719067553
• Artikelnr.: 29919910

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