About this title: Geoffrey Hill is University Professor at Boston University. He holds an honorary D. Litt. from the University of Leeds and is an Honorary Fellow of both Keble College, Oxford and Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Amongst many other recognitions of his work as a poet, he has received the Hawthornden Prize and the Whitbread Award. He gave the Clark Lectures, on which this book is based, in 1986. 'Well done!' is a familiar cry with a complex sense. It may applaud the merest knack, patronize a decent competence, or squarely recognize something at once finely-achieved and morally just. The language of ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780198112167ISBN:0198112165
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780198112167ISBN:0198112165
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Binding: Hardback
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780198112167ISBN:0198112165
Description: BRAND NEW HARDBACK. 216x138 mm. This book is printed on demand. (allow 1-2 weeks for printing) (168) is poetry the distinctively free and self-contained form of language it has so often been called? focusing on dryden, but also looking at writers such as donne, hobbes, marvell, and pound, geoffrey hill examines the real conditions of poets' work, grounded as it is in the mundane drudgery and insecurity of historical existence. with humour and rigour, the enemy's country enacts the struggle of ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Date Published: 1991-07
ISBN-13:9780804719032ISBN:0804719039
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Publisher: Stanford University Press
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780804723688ISBN:0804723680
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Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN-13:9780804723688ISBN:0804723680
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN-13:9780804723688ISBN:0804723680
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Edition: First
Binding: Board HB
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford, United Kingdom
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780198112167ISBN:0198112165
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780198112167ISBN:0198112165
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Hardback, 8vo, 153 pp, blue cloth, gilt spine, pictorial dj; very good/very good; Words, Contexture, And Other Circumstances Of Language. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Date Published: 1995-01-01
ISBN-13:9780804723688ISBN:0804723680
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