New & Collected Poems 1952-1992: Geoffrey Hill
by Geoffrey HillFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2000-01-01
Publisher(s): Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Summary
This volume brings together poems from four decades of Geoffrey Hill's work.
Author Biography
Geofrey Hill was born in 1932, in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire. He is the author of five books of poetry, two volumes of literary criticism, and a stage version of Isben's poetic drama Brand. He teaches in the University Professors Program at Boston University. He currently resides in Brookline, Massachusetts
Table of Contents
| For the Unfallen (1959) | |
| Genesis | p. 3 |
| God's Little Mountain | p. 6 |
| Holy Thursday | p. 7 |
| Merlin | p. 8 |
| The Bidden Guest | p. 9 |
| In Memory of Jane Fraser | p. 11 |
| The Turtle Dove | p. 12 |
| The Troublesome Reign | p. 13 |
| Solomon's Mines | p. 14 |
| The Distant Fury of Battle | p. 15 |
| Asmodeus | p. 16 |
| Requirem for the Plantagenet Kings | p. 18 |
| Two Formal Elegies | p. 19 |
| Metamorphoses | p. 21 |
| Picture of a Nativity | p. 26 |
| Canticle for Good Friday | p. 27 |
| The Guardians | p. 28 |
| The White Ship | p. 29 |
| Wreaths | p. 30 |
| Elegiac Stanzas | p. 31 |
| After Cumae | p. 32 |
| Little Apocalypse | p. 33 |
| The Bibliographers | p. 34 |
| Of Commerce and Society | p. 35 |
| Doctor Faustus | p. 41 |
| A Pastoral | p. 43 |
| Orpheus and Eurydice | p. 44 |
| In Piam Memoriam | p. 45 |
| To the (Supposed) Patron | p. 46 |
| King Log (1968) | |
| Ovid in the Third Reich | p. 49 |
| Annunciations | p. 50 |
| Locust Songs | p. 52 |
| I Had Hope When Violence Was Ceas't | p. 54 |
| September Song | p. 55 |
| An Order of Service | p. 56 |
| The Humanist | p. 57 |
| Funeral Music | p. 58 |
| Four Poems Regarding the Endurance of Poets | p. 66 |
| The Imaginative Life | p. 70 |
| The Assisi Fragments | p. 71 |
| History as Poetry | p. 72 |
| Soliloquies | p. 73 |
| Cowan Bridge | p. 75 |
| Fantasia on 'Horbury' | p. 76 |
| Three Baroque Meditations | p. 77 |
| The Songbook of Sebastian Arrurruz | p. 80 |
| Mercian Hymns (1971) | |
| The Naming of Offa | p. 93 |
| The Naming of Offa | p. 94 |
| The Crowning of Offa | p. 95 |
| The Crowning of Offa | p. 96 |
| The Crowning of Offa | p. 97 |
| The Childhood of Offa | p. 98 |
| The Kingdom of Offa | p. 99 |
| Offa's Leechdom | p. 100 |
| Offa's Book of the Dead | p. 101 |
| Offa's Laws | p. 102 |
| Offa's Coins | p. 103 |
| Offa's Coins | p. 104 |
| Offa's Coins | p. 105 |
| Offa's Laws | p. 106 |
| Offa's Bestiary | p. 107 |
| Offa's Sword | p. 108 |
| Offa's Journey to Rome | p. 109 |
| Offa's Journey to Rome | p. 110 |
| Offa's Laws | p. 111 |
| Offa's 'Defence of the English People' | p. 112 |
| The Kingdom of Offa | p. 113 |
| Offa's 'Second Defence of the English People' | p. 114 |
| Opus Anglicanum | p. 115 |
| Opus Anglicanum | p. 116 |
| Opus Anglicanum | p. 117 |
| Offa's Bestiary | p. 118 |
| The Death of Offa | p. 119 |
| The Death of Offa | p. 120 |
| The Death of Offa | p. 121 |
| The Death of Offa | p. 122 |
| Tenebrae (1978) | |
| The Pentecost Castle | p. 125 |
| Lachrimae | p. 133 |
| An Apology for the Revival of Christian Architecture In England | p. 140 |
| Two Chorale-Preludes | p. 153 |
| A Pre-Raphaelite Notebook | p. 155 |
| Terribilis Est Locus Iste | p. 156 |
| Veni Coronaberis | p. 157 |
| Florentines | p. 158 |
| 'Christmas Trees' | p. 159 |
| Tenebrae | p. 160 |
| The Mystery of the Charity of Charles Peguy (1983) | p. 163 |
| Hymns to Our Lady of Chartres | p. 180 |
| New Poems (1992) | |
| Sobieski's Shield | p. 185 |
| Of Coming-into-Being and Passing-Away | p. 186 |
| Ritornelli | p. 187 |
| Canaan | p. 188 |
| Respublica | p. 190 |
| Song Contest | p. 191 |
| De Jure Belli ac Pacis | p. 192 |
| Scenes with Harlequins | p. 194 |
| To the Nieuport Scout | p. 201 |
| Churchill's Funeral | p. 202 |
| Psalms of Assize | p. 209 |
| Cycle | p. 211 |
| Sorrel | p. 213 |
| Notes and Acknowledgements | p. 215 |
| Index of Titles and First Lines | p. 221 |
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