Geoffrey Hill and the Ends of Poetry - Hardcover
by Tom Docherty
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Manchester University PressISBN-13:9781526181893ISBN-10:1526181894UPC:9781526181893Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Poetry, ModernBook Topic:20th CenturySize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.69 inchesWeight:1.2809Product ID:SC31BADVWV
Geoffrey Hill and the Ends of Poetry
The idea of the end is an essential motivic force in the poetry of Geoffrey Hill (1932-2016). This book shows that Hill's poems are characteristically 'end-directed'. They tend towards consummations of all kinds: from the marriages of meanings in puns, or of words in repeating figures and rhymes, to syntactical and formal finalities. The recognition of failure to reach such ends provides its own...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Manchester University PressISBN-13:9781526181893ISBN-10:1526181894UPC:9781526181893Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Poetry, ModernBook Topic:20th CenturySize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.69 inchesWeight:1.2809Product ID:SC31BADVWV
Tom Docherty is an independent researcher who received his PhD from Pembroke College, Cambridge in 2018
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