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Zusatztext Having spent much of 2014 savoring Geoffrey Hill's colossal Broken Hierarchies: Poems 1952-2012, I've come to accept that any review of it will falter as piecemeal commentary in the shadow of its achievement ... the cumulative brilliance and range of Hill's oeuvre make him unquestionably England's greatest living poet. Informationen zum Autor Geoffrey Hill, the son of a police constable, was born in Worcestershire in 1932. He was educated at Bromsgrove County High School and at Keble College, Oxford. After teaching for more than thirty years in England, first at Leeds and subsequently at Cambridge, he became Professor of Literature and Religion at Boston University in Massachusetts, where he was also founding co-director of the Editorial Institute. In 2010 he was elected Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford. Broken Hierarchies brings together twenty books of poems by Geoffrey Hill, offering a complete collection of his poetry from 1952-2012. Zusammenfassung Broken Hierarchies collects twenty books of poems by Geoffrey Hill, written over sixty years, and presents them in their definitive form. Four of these books (Ludo, Expostulations on the Volcano, Liber Illustrium Virorum, and Al Tempo de' Tremuoti) have never before appeared in print, and three of them (Hymns to Our Lady of Chartres, Pindarics, and Clavics) have been greatly revised and expanded. FOR THE UNFALLEN (1959) ; Genesis ; God s Little Mountain ; Holy Thursday ; Merlin ; The Bidden Guest ; In Memory of Jane Fraser ; The Turtle Dove ; The Troublesome Reign ; Solomon s Mines ; The Distant Fury of Battle ; Asmodeus ; Requiem for the Plantagenet Kings ; Two Formal Elegies ; Metamorphoses ; Picture of a Nativity ; Canticle for Good Friday ; The Guardians ; The White Ship ; Wreaths ; Elegiac Stanzas ; After Cumae ; Little Apocalypse ; The Bibliographers ; Of Commerce and Society ; Doctor Faustus ; A Pastoral ; Orpheus and Eurydice ; In Piam Memoriam ; To the (Supposed) Patron ; KING LOG (1968) ; Ovid in the Third Reich ; Annunciations ; Locust Songs ; I Had Hope When Violence Was Ceas t ; September Song ; An Order of Service ; The Humanist ; Funeral Music ; Four Poems Regarding the Endurance of Poets ; The Imaginative Life ; The Assisi Fragments ; History as Poetry ; Soliloquies ; Cowan Bridge ; Fantasia on Horbury ; Three Baroque Meditations ; The Songbook of Sebastian Arrurruz ; MERCIAN HYMNS (1971) ; I The Naming of Offa ; II The Naming of Offa ; III The Crowning of Offa ; Iv The Crowning of Offa ; V The Crowning of Offa ; VI The Childhood of Offa ; VII The Kingdom of Offa ; VIII Offa s Leechdom ; IX Offa s Book of the Dead ; X Offa s Laws ; XI Offa s Coins ; XII Offa s Coins ; XIII Offa s Coins ; XIV Offa s Laws ; XV Offa s Bestiary ; XVI Offa s Sword ; XVII Offa s Journey to Rome ; XVIII Offa s Journey to Rome ; XIX Offa s Laws ; XX Offa s Defence of the English People ; XXI The Kingdom of Offa ; XXII Offa s Second Defence of the English People ; XXIII Opus Anglicanum ; XXIV Opus Anglicanum ; XXV Opus Anglicanum ; XXVI Offa s Bestiary ; XXVII The Death of Offa ; XXVIII The Death of Offa ; XXIX The Death of Offa ; XXX The Death of Offa ; TENEBRAE (1978) ; The Pentecost Castle ; Lachrimae ; An Apology for the Revival of Christian Architecture in England ; Two Chorale-Preludes ; A Pre-Raphaelite Notebook ; Terribilis Est Locus Iste ; Veni Coronaberis ; Florentines ; Christmas Trees ; Tenebrae ; THE MYSTERY OF THE CHARITY OF CHARLES PEGUY (1983) ; HYMNS TO OUR LADY OF CHARTRES (1982 2012) ; CANAAN (1996) ; To the High Court of Parliament ( Where s probity in this ) ; That Man as a Rational Animal Desires the Knowledge Which Is His Perfection ; Sobieski s Shield ; Of Coming into Being and Passing Away ; De Ani...
