The Triumph of Love - Hardcover

HILL

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0395912350 ISBN 13: 9780395912355

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (Trade), 1998

Synopsis

A book-length poem describes the author's slow coming-to-terms with the brutality, political idiocy, and ecclesiastic blindness of the twentieth century, and his own failings

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Review

"Geoffrey Hill may be the strongest and most original English poet of the second half of our fading century . . . The range of variation and diction, rhetorical level, degree and function of wordplay and, along that great spectrum from solemn to funny that true seriousness inhabits, provides in itself a kind of dramaturgy."

"Hill's poems demand and reward reading upon reading: the ascent is steep, the view austerely sublime."

"Hill's poems serve exalted artistic ends . . . They display such burnish, such sensuality and coiled force, that by comparison most other verse looks pale, undernourished and unimportant."

"Hill, always the heir of William Blake and D. H. Lawrence, more than confirms his calling as poet-prophet in The Triumph of Love. The poem is a great and difficult moral, cognitive, and aesthetic achievement -- 'a sad and angry consolation' almost beyond measure." -- Harold Bloom

"Art of the highest lyric intensity . . . it stands with the work of Mandelstam and Montale." Boston Globe

"Geoffrey Hill may be the strongest and most original English poet of the second half of our fading century . . . The range of variation and diction, rhetorical level, degree and function of wordplay and, along that great spectrum from solemn to funny that true seriousness inhabits, provides in itself a kind of dramaturgy." The Los Angeles Times

"Hill's poems serve exalted artistic ends . . . They display such burnish, such sensuality and coiled force, that by comparison most other verse looks pale, undernourished and unimportant." The Washington Post

"Hill, always the heir of William Blake and D. H. Lawrence, more than confirms his calling as poet-prophet in The Triumph of Love. The poem is a great and difficult moral, cognitive, and aesthetic achievement -- 'a sad and angry consolation' almost beyond measure." -- Harold Bloom

"Hill's poems demand and reward reading upon reading: the ascent is steep, the view austerely sublime." The Wall Street Journal

About the Author

Geoffrey Hill was born in Bromsgrove in 1932, where his father was a police-constable. He taught for many years at Leeds University and Cambridge, and is now a Professor of English in Boston. He is the author of six books of poetry (his Collected isin Penguin), two books of essays, and a translation of Ibsen's BRAND, which is in Penguin Classics.

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (Trade)
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0395912350
• ISBN 13: 9780395912355
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 82