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 geoffrey hill several things at once: and it is this ability to compound and complicate and simplify inan instant that is on ...

sidney keyes in historical perspective  deny ‘communication’; the ‘authority’ of poetry is its ‘communication’; to ‘shape a t ...

 geoffrey hill If war poetry is conceived of narrowly as poems about fighting, the appellation doesnot fit Keyes. His battali ...

sidney keyes in historical perspective  of the day. A good place to look for parallels to it would be inTransformation Two,ed ...

 geoffrey hill What I propose to call ‘the Rilke connection’ is of the utmost significance in ourconsideration of Keyes’s poe ...

sidney keyes in historical perspective  lines 5–6 are a close paraphrase of the firstElegy’sopening declamation.^59 But two o ...

 geoffrey hill Goethe, and of the poetry he returned to after his seven-year silence, is alien to this portrayalof his dying. ...

sidney keyes in historical perspective  of his audience in a way impossible by any other means.’ ‘He is neither propagating a ...

 geoffrey hill from Egypt’, and numerous others. The conflict in Keyes needs to be defined in otherterms, though obviously th ...

sidney keyes in historical perspective  Her grave stands open to the sky; Andthere she lies together with The shattered limbs ...

 geoffrey hill One notices in this list the frequent occurrence of the word ‘Lament’: it is the equivalentof Pound’s ‘poignan ...

sidney keyes in historical perspective  Beauty can be evaluated according to an objectivecriterion.An object is beautiful whe ...

 geoffrey hill It cannot be stated too strongly that the pressure of expectation in the reading public,or, rather, the force ...

sidney keyes in historical perspective  Plucking the bitter-fruited orange Fame; Longways of hopeful windows; the old year St ...

 geoffrey hill And Yeats is also here, in the clockwork bird.^93 Secondly,among the felicities of detail, the fact that the a ...

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 hugh haughton and anthologies have played a central role in the construction and reconstruction ofthe ‘war poem’ and ‘war po ...

anthologizing war  post-dated it. The posthumous collections of Owen (1920) and Rosenberg (1922) werecomplemented by the post ...