The Book of Baruch by the Gnostic Justin

ISBN-13: 9780198829522 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 160 str.

Geoffrey Hill; Kenneth Haynes

Opis

At his death in 2016, Geoffrey Hill left behind The Book of Baruch by the Gnostic Justin, a sequence of more than 270 poems, to be published posthumously as his final statement. It is a great work, and in Hill's oeuvre it is a uniquely welcoming work, open to all comers.

Recenzje

An engaging curiosity... Arguably resembling a prose poem, these not-quite-paragraphs deliver a thunderous, line-by-line, biblical cadence while internal and off-rhymes proliferate at a near... sing-song rate.

O autorze

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 co-director of the Editorial Institute. In 2010 he was elected Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford. Kenneth Haynes is Professor of Comparative Literature and Classics at Brown University.