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A Treatise of Civil Power

By Geoffrey Hill

Paperback | 9780300131499

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Geoffrey Hill’s latest collection takes its title from a pamphlet by Milton of 1659 that attacks the concept of a state church as well as corruption in church governance. As Milton figures prominently here, so too must the Lord Protector, Cromwell, addressed in a memorable sonnet sequence. AlsContinue

Geoffrey Hill’s latest collection takes its title from a pamphlet by Milton of 1659 that attacks the concept of a state church as well as corruption in church governance. As Milton figures prominently here, so too must the Lord Protector, Cromwell, addressed in a memorable sonnet sequence. Also considered by Hill are other poets to whom he nods in gratitude, not just Milton and “my god” Ben Jonson, or Robert Herrick, or William Blake, but also Robert Lowell and, perhaps most interestingly, John Berryman, whose Dream Songs haunts this present collection.

Here we again confront the poet’s familiar obsessions—language, governance, war, politics, the contemporary and classical worlds, and the nature of poetry itself. John Hollander writes of Hill’s poems that they immerse themselves “in the matters of stones and rock, of permanence and historical change, martyrdoms and mockeries, and above all history and the monuments and residua of its consequences in places, things, and persons.” A Treatise of Civil Power is the work of a major poet at the height of his powers.



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  • Alive to the past

    A Treatise of Civil Power by Geoffrey Hill 52pp, Penguin, £9.99 The days when a new volume by Geoffrey Hill was a rare event are becoming hard to remember. Only four collections appeared between 1959 and 1996; since then there have been five hefty bo ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • On the Edge

    Civil power is a strange choice of subject for a poet like Geoffrey Hill, who started writing in the early 1950s, the age of anxiety, a notoriously bad time for civil liberties and a good time for literature. Or more accurately, the times were good f ... (read full critics)

    nybooks published on Thu, 26 Aug 2010

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Book Details

  • English Books
  • Paperback 64 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 0300131496
  • ISBN-13: 9780300131499
  • Publisher: Yale University Press
  • Pub date: Jan 07, 2008
  • Dimensions: 1355 mm x 839 mm x 65 mm Just how big is that?
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