Acceptable words : essays on the poetry of Geoffrey Hill /
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| Author / Creator: | Wainwright, Jeffrey. |
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| Imprint: | Manchester, UK ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York ; Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2005. |
| Description: | x, 155 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5933066 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- 1. 'Acceptable words'
- 2. 'The speechless dead': King Log (1968)
- 3. Poet, lover, liar: 'Lachrimae' (1975)
- 4. 'Our love is what we love to have': Tenebrae (1978)
- 5. Things and words: The Mystery of the Charity of Charles Peguy (1983)
- 6. History as poetry: 'Churchill's Funeral' and 'De Jure Belli ac Pacis' (Canaan, 1996)
- 7. The Triumph of Love (1998)
- 8. 'Beauty is difficult': Speech! Speech! (2000)
- 9. 'Here and there I pull a flower': The Orchards of Syon (2002)
- 10. 'In wintry solstice like the shorten'd light': Scenes from Comus (2005)
- 11. Afterword: '"I have not finished"'
- Notes
- Select bibliography
- Index
