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Broken Hierarchies: Poems 1952-2012
Geoffrey Hill
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Description for Broken Hierarchies: Poems 1952-2012
Paperback. Broken Hierarchies brings together twenty books of poems by Geoffrey Hill, offering a complete collection of his poetry from 1952-2012. Editor(s): Haynes, Kenneth. Num Pages: 992 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Broken Hierarchies collects twenty books of poems by Geoffrey Hill, written over sixty years, and presents them in their definitive form. Four of these books (Ludo, Expostulations on the Volcano, Liber Illustrium Virorum, and Al Tempo de' Tremuoti) have never before appeared in print, and three of them (Hymns to Our Lady of Chartres, Pindarics, and Clavics) have been greatly revised and expanded.
Broken Hierarchies collects twenty books of poems by Geoffrey Hill, written over sixty years, and presents them in their definitive form. Four of these books (Ludo, Expostulations on the Volcano, Liber Illustrium Virorum, and Al Tempo de' Tremuoti) have never before appeared in print, and three of them (Hymns to Our Lady of Chartres, Pindarics, and Clavics) have been greatly revised and expanded.
Product Details
Publisher
OUP Oxford
Number of pages
992
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
990
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198713180
SKU
V9780198713180
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About Geoffrey Hill
Geoffrey Hill, the son of a police constable, was born in Worcestershire in 1932. He was educated at Bromsgrove County High School and at Keble College, Oxford. After teaching for more than thirty years in England, first at Leeds and subsequently at Cambridge, he became Professor of Literature and Religion at Boston University in Massachusetts, where he was also founding ... Read more
Reviews for Broken Hierarchies: Poems 1952-2012
He can rival the best.
Jeremy Noel-Tod, The Sunday Times
If the phrase greatest living poet in the English language has any meaning, then we should use it to describe Hill.
Nicholas Lezard, The Guardian
Hill has for 40-odd years kept his language as close-textured, tough, knotted and lyrical as poetry can be. If ... Read more
Jeremy Noel-Tod, The Sunday Times
If the phrase greatest living poet in the English language has any meaning, then we should use it to describe Hill.
Nicholas Lezard, The Guardian
Hill has for 40-odd years kept his language as close-textured, tough, knotted and lyrical as poetry can be. If ... Read more