02901nam 2200565 a 450 991046394400332120200520144314.01-84779-599-41-78170-335-31-84779-396-7(CKB)3280000000000440(EBL)1069501(OCoLC)818847186(SSID)ssj0000712715(PQKBManifestationID)12280890(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000712715(PQKBWorkID)10650321(PQKB)10075033(StDuBDS)EDZ0000085693(MiAaPQ)EBC1069501(Au-PeEL)EBL1069501(CaPaEBR)ebr10623342(CaONFJC)MIL843727(EXLCZ)99328000000000044020060317d2005 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAcceptable words[electronic resource] essays on the poetry of Geoffrey Hill /Jeffrey WainwrightManchester ;New York Manchester University Press20051 online resource (168 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-7190-6755-3 0-7190-6754-5 Includes bibliographical references (p. [144]-147) and index.9780719067549; 9780719067549; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 'Acceptable words'; 'The speechless dead': King Log (1968); Poet, lover, liar: 'Lachrimae' (1975); 'Our love is what we love to have':Tenebrae (1978); Things and words: The Mystery of theCharity of Charles Péguy (1983); History as poetry: 'Churchill's Funeral' and'De Jure Belli ac Pacis' (Canaan, 1996); The Triumph of Love (1998); 'Beauty is difficult':Speech! Speech! (2000); 'Here and there I pull a flower':The Orchards of Syon (2002)'In wintry solstice like the shorten'd light':Scenes from Comus (2005)Afterword: '"I have not finished"'; Notes; Select bibliography; IndexGeoffrey 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 sorrowing, angry, satiric or erotic. It shows how Hill's words are never lightly 'acceptable' but an ethical act, how he seeks out words he can stand by - words that are 'getting it right'.This book is the most comprehensive and up-to-date critical work on Geoffrey Hill so far, covering all his work up to 'Scenes from Electronic books.821.914Wainwright Jeffrey927621MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910463944003321Acceptable words2084052UNINA