Collected Critical Writings.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hill, Geoffrey.

Contributor:

Haynes, Kenneth.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christian literature, English--History and criticism.

English poetry--History and criticism.

Poetry.

English poetry.

American poetry--History and criticism.

American poetry.

Christian literature, English.

Local Subjects:

Christian literature, English--History and criticism.

English poetry--History and criticism.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (827 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : OUP Oxford, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Collected Critical Writings of Geoffrey Hill gathers more than forty years of Hill's published criticism, in a revised final form, and also adds much new work. It will serve as the canonical volume of criticism by Hill, the pre-eminent poet-critic whom A. N. Wilson has called 'probably the best writer alive, in verse or in prose'. In his criticism Hill ranges widely, investigating both poets (including Jonson, Dryden, Hopkins, Whitman, Eliot, and Yeats ) and prosewriters (such as Tyndale, Clarendon, Hobbes, Burton, Emerson, and F. H. Bradley). He is also steeped in the historical context -

Contents:

Contents; THE LORDS OF LIMIT; THE ENEMY'S COUNTRY; STYLE AND FAITH; INVENTIONS OF VALUE; ALIENATED MAJESTY; Editorial Note; Abbreviations; Notes; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

0-19-154910-X

OCLC:

609850429