New & collected poems, 1952-1992
By: Geoffrey Hill
Edition: 1st Mariner books ed
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
Other titles: New and collected poems, 1952-1992
Description: This volume brings together the poems from Geoffrey Hill's earlier books - For the Unfallen (1959), King Log (1968), Mercian Hymns (1971), Tenebrae (1978), The Mystery of the Charity of Charles Peguy (1983), Hymns to Our Lady of Chartres (1984) - and a number of new poems and sequences of poems

Geoffrey Hill's poems are like those of no other living poet. Grand in their music, powerful in their impact, they are public poetry, poetry dealing with religion, with the state of England, poetry as a lamentation for the human condition. As A

Alvarez has written, "He is a myth-maker . . . in a language so thickened and strengthened as to give the continual effect of muscular effort . . . [He] leaves you not so much with statements to be understood intellectually as with physical states to be shared." Harold Bloom has described Hill as "the strongest British poet now alive ..

He should be read for many generations after [his contemporaries] have blended together, just as he should survive all but a handful (or fewer) of American poets now active." His newest poems include a massive commemoration of Winston Churchill, an elegy on the death of William Arrowsmith, and a beautiful mysterious lyric, entitled "Respublica," reflecting on the nature of public existence
Notes: "A Mariner book."
Table of contents: title: Genesis; title: God's Little Mountain; title: Holy Thursday; title: Merlin; title: The Bidden Guest; title: In Memory of Jane Fraser; title: The Turtle Dove; title: The Troublesome Reign; title: Solomon's Mines; title: The Distant Fury of Battle; title: Asmodeus; title: Requiem for the Plantagenet Kings; title: Two Formal Elegies; title: Metamorphoses; title: Picture of a Nativity; title: Canticle for Good Friday; title: The Guardians; title: The White Ship; title: Wreaths; title: Elegiac Stanzas; title: After Cumae; title: Little Apocalypse; title: The Bibliographers; title: Of Commerce and Society; title: Doctor Faustus; title: A Pastoral; title: Orpheus and Eurydice; title: In Piam Memoriam; title: To the (Supposed) Patron; title: Ovid in the Third Reich; title: Annunciations; title: Locust Songs; title: I Had Hope When Violence Was Ceas't; title: September Song; title: An Order of Service; title: The Humanist; title: Funeral Music; title: Four Poems Regarding the Endurance of Poets; title: The Imaginative Life; title: The Assisi Fragments; title: History as Poetry; title: Soliloquies; title: Cowan Bridge; title: Fantasia on 'Horbury'; title: Three Baroque Meditations; title: The Songbook of Sebastian Arrurruz; title: I. The Naming of Offa; title: II. The Naming of Offa; title: III. The Crowning of Offa; title: IV. The Crowning of Offa; title: V. The Crowning of Offa; title: VI. The Childhood of Offa; title: VII. The Kingdom of Offa; title: VIII. Offa's Leechdom; title: IX. Offa's Book of the Dead; title: X. Offa's Laws; title: XI. Offa's Coins; title: XII. Offa's Coins; title: XIII. Offa's Coins; title: XIV. Offa's Laws; title: XV. Offa's Bestiary; title: XVI. Offa's Sword; title: XVII. Offa's Journey to Rome; title: XVIII. Offa's Journey to Rome; title: XIX. Offa's Laws; title: XX. Offa's 'Defence of the English People'; title: XXI. The Kingdom of Offa; title: XXII. Offa's 'Second Defence of the English People'; title: XXIII. Opus Anglicanum; title: XXIV. Opus Anglicanum; title: XXV. Opus Anglicanum; title: XXVI. Offa's Bestiary; title: XXVII. The Death of Offa; title: XXVIII. The Death of Offa; title: XXIX. The Death of Offa; title: XXX. The Death of Offa; title: The Pentecost Castle; title: Lachrimae; title: An Apology for the Revival of Christian Architecture In England; title: Two Chorale-Preludes; title: A Pre-Raphaelite Notebook; title: Terribilis Est Locus Iste; title: Veni Coronaberis; title: Florentines; title: 'Christmas Trees'; title: Tenebrae; title: Hymns to Our Lady of Chartres; title: Sobieski's Shield; title: Of Coming-into-Being and Passing-Away; title: Ritornelli; title: Canaan; title: Respublica; title: Song Contest; title: De Jure Belli ac Pacis; title: Scenes with Harlequins; title: To the Nieuport Scout; title: Churchill's Funeral; title: Psalms of Assize; title: Cycle; title: Sorrel