"True Friendship looks closely at three outstanding poets of the past half-century - Geoffrey Hill, Anthony Hecht, and Robert Lowell - through the lens of their relation to their two predecessors in genius, T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound."--Inside jacket
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This volume explores the work of four important poets writing post-1960 - Don Paterson, Geoffrey Hill, W.S. Graham, and C.H. Sissons - in order to show how contemporary British poetry's creative handling of addresses to 'you' are key in its interactions with readers, critics, lo…
This volume explores the work of four important poets writing post-1960 - Don Paterson, Geoffrey Hill, W.S. Graham, and C.H. Sissons - in order to show how contemporary British poetry's creative handling of addresses to 'you' are key in its interactions with readers, critics, lo…
"Speaking to You examines our pleasures in, accounts of, and uses for British poetry today. It explores the work of four important poets writing post-1960--Don Paterson, Geoffrey Hill, W.S. Graham, and C.H. Sissons--in order to show how contemporary British poetry's creative han…
Geoffrey Hill has said that some great poetry 'recognises that words fail us'. These essays explore Hill's struggle over fifty years with the recalcitrance of language. This book seeks to show how all his work is marked by the quest for the right pitch of utterance whether it is…
This collection of essays offers detailed readings of many poems, covering all of Hill's volumes up to 'Scenes from Comus' (2005). 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 pu…