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Category: Geoffrey Hill

104. (Geoffrey Hill)

In the late collections where Eugenio Montale is most present, in translation and as an interlocutor, Hill’s voice finds most … More

Contemporary Poetry, Eugenio Montale, Geoffrey Hill, Poetry, Translation

43. (Geoffrey Hill)

Some types of ambiguity in Geoffrey Hill’s Al Tempo de’ Tremuoti.  The opening section, followed by commentary: A signal pre-election to free … More

At Tempo de Tremuoti, close reading, exegesis, Geoffrey Hill, Poetry

38. (Geoffrey Hill)

“Arsenio, let us put this joke to bed,” Geoffrey Hill enjoins Eugenio Montale in the forty-fifth numbered section of the long-poem, … More

Al Tempo de' Tremuoti, Contemporary Poetry, Geoffrey Hill, Poetry

21. (Geoffrey Hill)

Excess curries parody. The late Hill has not been one to shun excesses: in output, in rhetorical posturing, in allusiveness, … More

Davie, Eleanor Cook, Geoffrey Hill, Marvell, Pope, Stevens, T.S. Eliot, wit

11. (Geoffrey Hill)

Not newly appearing in the new Collected Poems, the poem there that nonetheless surprised me most—-thumbed over, by chance, on the … More

Bob Dylan, Contemporary Poetry, Davie, Geoffrey Hill, Gillian Rose

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