Product Description

In the words of the magazine Poetry Review, a kind of late fury has gripped Geoffrey Hill in recent years after a decade's silence, with CANAAN (1996), THE LOVE TRIUMPH (1998), SPEECH! SPEECH! (2001) - all published in Penguin - and now this new volume. All these books are driven by a profound quarrel with the modern world. This new book consists of 72 numbered poems, each of 24 lines. Together they make up a kind of Dantean eclogue in which the landscape of Hill's youth - rural Worcestershire - offers a glimpse of paradise in the midst of the modern world. This is a major poet writing serious, beautiful poetry.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #443823 in Books
• Published on: 2002-09-05
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 96 pages

About the Author
Geoffrey Hill was born in Bromsgrove, Worcs, in 1932, the son of a local policeman. He taught for many years at the Universities of Leeds and Cambridge, but moved to the USA in 1988 and is currently Professor of Literature and Religion at the University of Boston. He is widely regarded as one of our greatest poets.

Customer Reviews

More Nonsense From Geoffrey Hill
Reviewers tend to use word such as 'unsettling', masterful', 'genius' and 'morality' when writing about Geoffrey Hill's books. I prefer to use words such as 'bollocks' and 'tosh'.