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Acceptable words : essays on the poetry of Geoffrey Hill / Jeffrey Wainwright.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wainwright, Jeffrey, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hill, Geoffrey, 1950---Criticism and interpretation.
- Hill, Geoffrey.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 155 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2005.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- This collection of essays offers detailed readings of many poems, covering all of Hill's volumes up to 'Scenes from Comus'. It also examines several poems yet to be made available in published form, and covers Hill's late burst of creativity in the six volumes of verse published since 1996.
- Contents:
- 9780719067549; 9780719067549; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 'Acceptable words'; 'The speechless dead': King Log (1968); Poet, lover, liar: 'Lachrimae' (1975); 'Our love is what we love to have':Tenebrae (1978); Things and words: The Mystery of theCharity of Charles Peguy (1983); History as poetry: 'Churchill's Funeral' and'De Jure Belli ac Pacis' (Canaan, 1996); The Triumph of Love (1998); 'Beauty is difficult':Speech! Speech! (2000); 'Here and there I pull a flower':The Orchards of Syon (2002).
- 'In wintry solstice like the shorten'd light':Scenes from Comus (2005)Afterword: '"I have not finished"'; Notes; Select bibliography; Index.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 11, 2026).
- ISBN:
- 9781847795991
- 1847795994
- 9781781703359
- 1781703353
- 9781847793966
- 1847793967
- OCLC:
- 818847186
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