The Enemy's Country: Words, Contexture, and Other Circumstances of Language

ISBN-13: 9780198112167 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 168 str.

Geoffrey Hill

Opis

Poetry has sometimes been credited with a special place as a form of conduct in language, as if it were a world of words of its own from which the poet masterfully dispenses a distinctly free speech. These essays enquire whether such high praises, even when sincere, are apt to the real conditions of poets' work, to their share of drudgery, their fears of misapprehension or their need to please, to the entanglements of meaning in historical communities.

Recenzje

'... his unravelling of friendly generosity and proud reservation in the text and circumstances of Dryden's 'To the Memory of Mr Oldham' seems set to become a classic of criticism.' Roger D. Sell. Abo Akademi University. Review of English Studies Vol XLV

Spis treści

A Note on the Title; A Note on References in the Text; 1. Unhappy Circumstances; 2. The Tartar's Bow and the Bow of Ulysses; 3. Caveats Enough in their Own Walks; 4. Dryden's Prize-Song; 5. "Envoi: 1919"; Notes; Index

O autorze

Geoffrey Hill has won prizes for his poetry, including the Hawthornden Prize and the Whitbread Award.