New & collected poems, 1952-1992 / Geoffrey Hill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hill, Geoffrey.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry.

Poetry, Modern.

Poetry, Modern--20th century.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xii, 228 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First Mariner books edition.

Other Title:

New and collected poems, 1952-1992

Place of Publication:

Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2000.

Summary:

This volume brings together the poems from Geoffrey Hill's earlier books - For the Unfallen (1959), King Log (1968), Mercian Hymns (1971), Tenebrae (1978), The Mystery of the Charity of Charles Peguy (1983), Hymns to Our Lady of Chartres (1984) - and a number of new poems and sequences of poems.

Geoffrey Hill's poems are like those of no other living poet. Grand in their music, powerful in their impact, they are public poetry, poetry dealing with religion, with the state of England, poetry as a lamentation for the human condition. As A.

Alvarez has written, "He is a myth-maker . . . in a language so thickened and strengthened as to give the continual effect of muscular effort . . . [He] leaves you not so much with statements to be understood intellectually as with physical states to be shared." Harold Bloom has described Hill as "the strongest British poet now alive ...

He should be read for many generations after [his contemporaries] have blended together, just as he should survive all but a handful (or fewer) of American poets now active." His newest poems include a massive commemoration of Winston Churchill, an elegy on the death of William Arrowsmith, and a beautiful mysterious lyric, entitled "Respublica," reflecting on the nature of public existence.

Contents:

Genesis

God's Little Mountain

Holy Thursday

Merlin

The Bidden Guest

In Memory of Jane Fraser

The Turtle Dove

The Troublesome Reign

Solomon's Mines

The Distant Fury of Battle

Asmodeus

Requiem for the Plantagenet Kings

Two Formal Elegies

Metamorphoses

Picture of a Nativity

Canticle for Good Friday

The Guardians

The White Ship

Wreaths

Elegiac Stanzas

After Cumae

Little Apocalypse

The Bibliographers

Of Commerce and Society

Doctor Faustus

A Pastoral

Orpheus and Eurydice

In Piam Memoriam

To the (Supposed) Patron

Ovid in the Third Reich

Annunciations

Locust Songs

I Had Hope When Violence Was Ceas't

September Song

An Order of Service

The Humanist

Funeral Music

Four Poems Regarding the Endurance of Poets

The Imaginative Life

The Assisi Fragments

History as Poetry

Soliloquies

Cowan Bridge

Fantasia on 'Horbury'

Three Baroque Meditations

The Songbook of Sebastian Arrurruz.

I. The Naming of Offa

II. The Naming of Offa

III. The Crowning of Offa

IV. The Crowning of Offa

V. The Crowning of Offa

VI. The Childhood of Offa

VII. The Kingdom of Offa

VIII. Offa's Leechdom

IX. Offa's Book of the Dead

X. Offa's Laws

XI. Offa's Coins

XII. Offa's Coins

XIII. Offa's Coins

XIV. Offa's Laws

XV. Offa's Bestiary

XVI. Offa's Sword

XVII. Offa's Journey to Rome

XVIII. Offa's Journey to Rome

XIX. Offa's Laws

XX. Offa's 'Defence of the English People'

XXI. The Kingdom of Offa

XXII. Offa's 'Second Defence of the English People'

XXIII. Opus Anglicanum

XXIV. Opus Anglicanum

XXV. Opus Anglicanum

XXVI. Offa's Bestiary

XXVII. The Death of Offa

XXVIII. The Death of Offa

XXIX. The Death of Offa

XXX. The Death of Offa

The Pentecost Castle

Lachrimae

An Apology for the Revival of Christian Architecture In England

Two Chorale-Preludes

A Pre-Raphaelite Notebook

Terribilis Est Locus Iste.

Veni Coronaberis

Florentines

'Christmas Trees'

Tenebrae

Hymns to Our Lady of Chartres

Sobieski's Shield

Of Coming-into-Being and Passing-Away

Ritornelli

Canaan

Respublica

Song Contest

De Jure Belli ac Pacis

Scenes with Harlequins

To the Nieuport Scout

Churchill's Funeral

Psalms of Assize

Cycle

Sorrel.

Notes:

"A Mariner book."

ISBN:

0618001883

9780618001880

OCLC:

43531247