The Collected Critical Writings of Geoffrey Hill gathers more than
forty years of Hill's published criticism, in a revised final form,
and also adds much new work. It will serve as the canonical volume
of criticism by Hill, the pre-eminent poet-critic whom A. N. Wilson
has called 'probably the best writer alive, in verse or in prose'.
In his criticism Hill ranges widely, investigating both poets
(including Jonson, Dryden, Hopkins, Whitman, Eliot, and Yeats ) and
prose writers (such as Tyndale, Clarendon, Hobbes, Burton, Emerson,
and F. H. Bradley). He is also steeped in the historical context -
political, poetic, and religious - of the writers he studies. Most
importantly, he brings texts and contexts into new and telling
relations, neither reducing texts to the circumstances of their
utterance nor imagining that they can float free of them. A number
of the essays have already established themselves as essential
reading on particular subjects, such as his analysis of Vaughan's
'The Night', his discussion of Gurney's poetry, and his critical
account of The Oxford English Dictionary. Others confront the
problems of language and the nature of value directly, as in 'Our
Word is Our Bond', 'Language, Suffering, and Value', and 'Poetry
and Value'. In all his criticism, Hill reveals literature to be an
essential arena of civic intelligence.
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