Broken Hierarchies - Poems 1952-2012

Broken Hierarchies brings together twenty books of poems by Geoffrey Hill, offering a complete collection of his poetry from 1952-2012.

List of contents

• 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 PÉGUY (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 Anima


• Whether the Virtues Are Emotions


• Whether Moral Virtue Comes by Habituation


• Ritornelli


• To William Cobbett: In Absentia


• Canaan


• Dark-Land ( Aspiring Grantham )


• Mysticism and Democracy ( You see the terrain )


• Scenes with Harlequins


• Postlude


• Algabal


• Mysticism and Democracy ( Do not stand witness )


• Dark-Land ( Wherein Wesley stood )


• To the Nieuport Scout


• Parentalia ( The here-and-now finds vigil )


• Respublica


• De Jure Belli ac Pacis


• Cycle


• Sorrel


• Parentalia ( Go your ways )


• Mysticism and Democracy (To the Evangelicals )


• Churchill s Funeral


• To the High Court of Parliament ( Keep what in repair )


• Pisgah


• To John Constable: In Absentia


• Dark-Land ( Are these last things )


• Mysticism and Democracy ( Ill-conceived, ill-ordained )


• Ezekiel s Wheel


• Psalms of Assize


• A Song of Degrees


• Of Constancy and Measure


• To William Law: In Absentia


• Concerning Inheritance


• Mysticism and Democracy ( Great gifts foreclosed on )


• To the High Court of Parliament ( who could outbalance )


• THE TRIUMPH OF LOVE (1998)


• SPEECH! SPEECH! (2000)


• THE ORCHARDS OF SYON (2002)


• SCENES FROM COMUS (2005)


• The Argument of the Masque


• Courtly Masquing Dances


• A Description of the Antimasque


• WITHOUT TITLE (2006)


• Improvisation on O Welt ich muss dich lassen


• Without Title


• Chromatic Tunes


• In Ipsley Church Lane 1


• The Jumping Boy


• On the Reality of the Symbol


• Insert Here


• Tu B Shevat


• Children s Games


• To Lucien Richard: On Suffering


• Wild Clematis in Winter


• Offertorium: December 2002


• Epiphany at Hurcott


• Epiphany at Saint Mary and All Saints


• Discourse: For Stanley Rosen


• In Ipsley Church Lane 2


• Improvisations for Jimi Hendrix


• To the Teller of Fortunes


• Ex Propertio


• Ars


• On the Sophoclean Moment in English Poetry


• In the Valley of the Arrow


• Improvisations for Hart Crane


• In Ipsley Church Lane 3


• Offertorium: Suffolk, July 2003


• From the Annals


• Broken Hierarchies


• The Storm


• Luxe, Calme et Volupté


• Improvisation on Warum ist uns das Licht gegeben?


• PINDARICS (2005 2012)


• A TREATISE OF CIVIL POWER (2007)


• The Minor Prophets


• Citations I


• Citations II


• On Reading Milton and the English Revolution


• Holbein


• Parallel Lives


• Masques


• Harmonia Sacra


• On Reading Blake: Prophet Against Empire


• To the Lord Protector Cromwell


• On Reading Crowds and Power


• A Cloud in Aquila


• In Framlingham Church


• De Necessitate


• After Reading Children of Albion (1969)


• Integer Vitae


• On Looking Through 50 Jahre im Bild: Bundesrepublik Deutschland


• A Précis or Memorandum of Civil Power


• G. F. Handel, Opus 6


• An Emblem


• The Peacock at Alderton


• In Memoriam: Gillian Rose


• Johannes Brahms, Opus 2


• In Memoriam: Aleksander Wat


• Before Senility


• On Reading The Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall


• In Memoriam: Ernst Barlach


• The Oath


• Coda


• Lyric Fragment


• Nachwort


• LUDO (2011)


• THE DAYBOOKS (2007 2012)


• I EXPOSTULATIONS ON THE VOLCANO


• II LIBER ILLUSTRIUM VIRORUM


• III ORACLAU


• IV CLAVICS


• V ODI BARBARE


• VI AL TEMPO DE TREMUOTI

About the author

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.

Summary

Broken Hierarchies brings together twenty books of poems by Geoffrey Hill, offering a complete collection of his poetry from 1952-2012.

Product details

• Authors: Geoffrey Hill, Geoffrey (Professor of Poetry Hill
• Assisted by: Kenneth Haynes (Editor), Kenneth (Brown University) Haynes (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.12.2015
• EAN: 9780198713180
• ISBN: 978-0-19-871318-0
• No. of pages: 990
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies