New & Collected Poems 1952-1992: Geoffrey Hill

by Geoffrey Hill

• ISBN13: 9780618001880
• ISBN10: 0618001883
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-01-01
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Summary

This volume brings together poems from four decades of Geoffrey Hill's work.

Author Biography

Geofrey Hill was born in 1932, in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire. He is the author of five books of poetry, two volumes of literary criticism, and a stage version of Isben's poetic drama Brand. He teaches in the University Professors Program at Boston University. He currently resides in Brookline, Massachusetts

Table of Contents

For the Unfallen (1959)
Genesis	p. 3
God's Little Mountain	p. 6
Holy Thursday	p. 7
Merlin	p. 8
The Bidden Guest	p. 9
In Memory of Jane Fraser	p. 11
The Turtle Dove	p. 12
The Troublesome Reign	p. 13
Solomon's Mines	p. 14
The Distant Fury of Battle	p. 15
Asmodeus	p. 16
Requirem for the Plantagenet Kings	p. 18
Two Formal Elegies	p. 19
Metamorphoses	p. 21
Picture of a Nativity	p. 26
Canticle for Good Friday	p. 27
The Guardians	p. 28
The White Ship	p. 29
Wreaths	p. 30
Elegiac Stanzas	p. 31
After Cumae	p. 32
Little Apocalypse	p. 33
The Bibliographers	p. 34
Of Commerce and Society	p. 35
Doctor Faustus	p. 41
A Pastoral	p. 43
Orpheus and Eurydice	p. 44
In Piam Memoriam	p. 45
To the (Supposed) Patron	p. 46
King Log (1968)
Ovid in the Third Reich	p. 49
Annunciations	p. 50
Locust Songs	p. 52
I Had Hope When Violence Was Ceas't	p. 54
September Song	p. 55
An Order of Service	p. 56
The Humanist	p. 57
Funeral Music	p. 58
Four Poems Regarding the Endurance of Poets	p. 66
The Imaginative Life	p. 70
The Assisi Fragments	p. 71
History as Poetry	p. 72
Soliloquies	p. 73
Cowan Bridge	p. 75
Fantasia on 'Horbury'	p. 76
Three Baroque Meditations	p. 77
The Songbook of Sebastian Arrurruz	p. 80
Mercian Hymns (1971)
The Naming of Offa	p. 93
The Naming of Offa	p. 94
The Crowning of Offa	p. 95
The Crowning of Offa	p. 96
The Crowning of Offa	p. 97
The Childhood of Offa	p. 98
The Kingdom of Offa	p. 99
Offa's Leechdom	p. 100
Offa's Book of the Dead	p. 101
Offa's Laws	p. 102
Offa's Coins	p. 103
Offa's Coins	p. 104
Offa's Coins	p. 105
Offa's Laws	p. 106
Offa's Bestiary	p. 107
Offa's Sword	p. 108
Offa's Journey to Rome	p. 109
Offa's Journey to Rome	p. 110
Offa's Laws	p. 111
Offa's 'Defence of the English People'	p. 112
The Kingdom of Offa	p. 113
Offa's 'Second Defence of the English People'	p. 114
Opus Anglicanum	p. 115
Opus Anglicanum	p. 116
Opus Anglicanum	p. 117
Offa's Bestiary	p. 118
The Death of Offa	p. 119
The Death of Offa	p. 120
The Death of Offa	p. 121
The Death of Offa	p. 122
Tenebrae (1978)
The Pentecost Castle	p. 125
Lachrimae	p. 133
An Apology for the Revival of Christian Architecture In England	p. 140
Two Chorale-Preludes	p. 153
A Pre-Raphaelite Notebook	p. 155
Terribilis Est Locus Iste	p. 156
Veni Coronaberis	p. 157
Florentines	p. 158
'Christmas Trees'	p. 159
Tenebrae	p. 160
The Mystery of the Charity of Charles Peguy (1983)	p. 163
Hymns to Our Lady of Chartres	p. 180
New Poems (1992)
Sobieski's Shield	p. 185
Of Coming-into-Being and Passing-Away	p. 186
Ritornelli	p. 187
Canaan	p. 188
Respublica	p. 190
Song Contest	p. 191
De Jure Belli ac Pacis	p. 192
Scenes with Harlequins	p. 194
To the Nieuport Scout	p. 201
Churchill's Funeral	p. 202
Psalms of Assize	p. 209
Cycle	p. 211
Sorrel	p. 213
Notes and Acknowledgements	p. 215
Index of Titles and First Lines	p. 221
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