... The New Poetry, take poetry ‘Beyond the Gentility Principle’. This was the generation of Thom Gunn, Geoffrey Hill, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, and Peter Porter. This book explores what these five poets shared in common, their connections, critical reception, rivalries, and differences, and locates...

...This chapter considers the influence of the hymn on poetry in English since the early twentieth century. Drawing examples and counter-examples from poems and critical writings by Robert Lowell, D. H. Lawrence, Donald Davie, Philip Larkin, Geoffrey Hill and Denise Riley, it examines the grounds...

...This introductory chapter sets out the book's purpose, which is to focus on three writers — Robert Lowell, Geoffrey Hill, and Seamus Heaney — whose works insist at once upon the inherent authority of a poem's expressive ‘way of happening’ and upon the limitations and liabilities of poetic...

...This chapter argues that Geoffrey Hill's critical and poetic sensibility was influenced by the opinions of Wordsworth and Coleridge on matters of taste. His critical writings reflect a scrupulous, even suspicious alertness to the ways in which ideas of ‘taste’ inform, and sometimes threaten...

...This chapter explores the poetry of Geoffrey Hill. It considers Hills awareness of the ‘necessity’ of working in the verbal medium — with all its debasements, approximations, and equivocations — and his efforts to work against it, by subjecting words to formal pressures and shaping impulses so...

... at the heart of this book, prompting fresh insights into three of the most important poets of recent decades: Robert Lowell, Geoffrey Hill, and Seamus Heaney. Through attentive close readings, the author shows how their responsiveness to matters of political and cultural import lends weight to the idea...

...This chapter examines the poetry of Geoffrey Hill, a poet of the New Poetry generation who has over the last two decades been more active and in some ways more extremist than he ever was before. From 1996's Canaan on, the costive impersonality of Hill's earlier...

... The New Poetry, take poetry ‘Beyond the Gentility Principle’. This was the generation of Thom Gunn, Geoffrey Hill, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, and Peter Porter. This book explores what these five poets shared in common, their connections, critical reception, rivalries, and differences, and locates what...

...This chapter examines the poetry of Geoffrey Hill, a poet of the New Poetry generation who has over the last two decades been more active and in some ways more extremist than he ever was before. From 1996's Canaan on, the costive impersonality of Hill's earlier...

..., disabling, and Geoffrey Hill’s reading of Hopkins reveals the latter to be a unique theological thinker, not just a poetic innovator. Hill demonstrates an unparalleled grasp of Hopkins’s theological ingenuity and collapses the division between Hopkins’s theological and poetic legacies, proving that each...

.... Eliot, Elizabeth Bishop, Seamus Heaney, Geoffrey Hill, Derek Walcott, Denise Levertov, John Berryman, Charles Wright, Maurice Manning, and Ron Hansen—but they also examine Hopkins’s substantial influence among Caribbean poets, Appalachian writers, modern novelists, and contemporary poets whose work lies...

...This chapter explores the poetry of Geoffrey Hill. It argues that the ‘praxis of an individual style’ in his work involves recourse to a peculiarly ‘eccentric’ form of ‘authority’. This is especially true of his recent volumes, with their capricious swerves between savage indignation and comic...

... to be achieved by securing creative freedom. The chapter examines Heaney's negotiations Robert Lowell and Geoffrey Hill, which have been revealingly complex and ambivalent, marked by both affirmation and wary circumspection. Envy, identification, alienation, unconscious absorption, and conscious emulation...

.... Prynne, Adrian Stokes, and Geoffrey Hill are then employed to promulgate a conception of poetic rhythm figuring the poet’s technique with regard to language as analogous to a central banker’s means for stabilizing the value of a currency. circulation Pope Alexander Prynne J H rhythm syntax trust...

...Literary influence is rarely as simple as locating the language of one writer in the work of another. Often it comes by way of, or in correspondence with, other writers, part of a chorus of influence. In Geoffrey Hill’s poetry, Gerard Manley Hopkins’s voice is part of the polyphonic, interweaving...