The Triumph of Love
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In Geoffrey Hill's words, The poet's job is to define and yet again define. If the poet doesn't make certain horrors appear horrible, who will? This astonishing book is a protest against evil and a... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0395912350
ISBN13:9780395912355
Release Date:September 1998
Publisher:Houghton Mifflin
Length:82 Pages
Weight:0.60 lbs.
Dimensions:5.8" x 0.5" x 8.3"
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A triumph indeed
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
An incredible poem by a passionate and erudite poet. Written in 150 sections over 82 pages, the Triumph of Love is a poem about memory; the memory of those who have gone before us, have suffered, have made sacrifices, and the ways in which violence is done to them through the forgetting of those living today. The reader will certainly want a dictionary and encyclopedia nearby for the numerous references to historical and literary figures and the many obscure (but irreplaceable) words! I read it through once myself, and then went back again slowly, then again looking up all the references. Each time I found new appreciation and love for this poem. It is at times beautifully lyrical, coarse, bitingly satirical, but overwhelmingly, in Hill's own words, "a sad and angry consolation". If you are familiar with Hill's other poems, you will certainly enjoy this ride. If not, you may wish to start with some of Hill's earlier works, which are also wonderful (in his "Collected Poems").
Ho, ho, ho.
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 26 years ago
Geoffrey Hill's new poem is - amongst other things - an enormous "blague": "a satire upon stupidity...a weapon of the intelligence at bay". A comedy (commedia) in the fullest sense, it is packed with excruciating in-jokes, false leads and obscurities whose very purpose seems to be to satirize the insistance of our media culture on instantaneous public "accessibility". Half intimate portrait, half erudite "gotcha", the poem is by turns dazzling, exasperating and *very* funny: a prize for the patient and demanding reader, and a wet haddock in the face for everyone else (critics and academics included).
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