Hawlin, Stefan (2014) 'The Redemption of History: A Reading of Geoffrey Hill's A Treatise of Civil Power'. Literary Imagination, 16 (2). pp. 219-232. ISSN 1523-9012 (PRINT) 1752-6566 (ONLINE)
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Abstract
This article provides a close reading of Geoffrey Hill’s late volume A Treatise of Civil Power (2007), with significant detail on the main poems. It shows how it forms an organized whole, where the parts add up to a larger vision of the body politic, power, and culture. The collection's attempt to read history as intelligible, as the ground of our thinking about thinking, is a careful challenge to progressivist and secularist assumptions. To articulate its vision the collection practises a deliberate ascesis of thought and word in relation to often tragic subject matter.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Geoffrey Hill; contemporary poetry; 21st-century poetry; lyric; poetry and politics |
| Subjects: | P Language and Literature > PR English literature |
| Divisions: | School of Humanities & Social Sciences > English Literature > English Literature |
| Depositing User: | Stefan Hawlin |
| Date Deposited: | 27 Feb 2019 11:53 |
| Last Modified: | 27 Feb 2019 11:53 |
| URI: | http://bear.buckingham.ac.uk/id/eprint/286 |
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