Selected Poems (edition 2006)

by Geoffrey Hill

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Muscular, grappling poetry with more Anglo-Saxonisms per square word than Beowulf - but Hill seems hobbled by academia; compelled to lard his every subject with God and Kierkegaard. I want him to cut loose with his poetic muckspreader and bespatter the various traditions; instead he's bent on creating an orthodoxy of his own. (

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This collection of poems represents the range of Wallace Stevens's achievement, from the whimsical and exotic lyrical inventions of 'Harmonium' to the pondered large-scale and crafted masterpieces of his middle years.

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