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Without Title
Praise for Geoffrey Hill’s newest collection of poems:
“Without Title, his new collection, combines the force and freedom of Hill's narrative verse with a renewed faith in his masterly talents for form and wordplay. The result is alarmingly good; a collection of lyrics on the difficulties of ageing, the problems of belief and the vagaries of language bracketing a sequence o...more
“Without Title, his new collection, combines the force and freedom of Hill's narrative verse with a renewed faith in his masterly talents for form and wordplay. The result is alarmingly good; a collection of lyrics on the difficulties of ageing, the problems of belief and the vagaries of language bracketing a sequence o...more
Paperback, 96 pages
Published
April 30th 2007
by Yale University Press
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If one were to take a step back and look at Hill's poetry, from the Triumph of Love to the present, you would see one of the longest goodbyes in poetry history. But it's a goodbye wrapped in ongoing complaint. Or is he bargaining with a distant God at his own oaks of Mamre? And about what? I don't know. Getting old, maybe. But the notion that that is the dark pearl at the heart of all of Hill's impenetrably barouque musings, seems wrong, but that sense of wrongness is based on Hill's powerful...more
Severe; powerful.
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