| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xiv, 973 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
For the Unfallen (1959). Genesis ; God's Little Mountain ; Holy Thursday ; Merlin ; The Bidden Guest ; In Memory of Jane Fraser ; The Turtle Dove ; The Troublesome Reign ; Solomon's Mines ; The Distant Fury of Battle ; Asmodeus ; Requiem for the Plantagenet Kings ; Two Formal Elegies ; Metamorphoses ; Picture of a Nativity ; Canticle for Good Friday ; The Guardians ; The White Ship ; Wreaths ; Elegiac Stanzas ; After Cumae ; Little Apocalypse ; The Bibliographers ; Of Commerce and Society ; Doctor Faustus ; A Pastoral ; Orpheus and Eurydice ; In Piam Memoriam ; To the (Supposed) Patron -- King Log (1968). Ovid in the Third Reich ; Annunciations ; Locust Songs ; I Had Hope When Violence Was Ceas't ; September Song ; An Order of Service ; The Humanist ; Funeral Music ; Four Poems Regarding the Endurance of Poets ; The Imaginative Life ; The Assisi Fragments ; History as Poetry ; Soliloquies ; Cowan Bridge ; Fantasia on "Horbury" ; Three Baroque Meditations ; The Songbook of Sebastian Arrurruz -- Mercian Hymns (1971). The Naming of Offa ; The Naming of Offa ; The Crowning of Offa ; The Crowning of Offa ; The Crowning of Offa ; The Childhood of Offa ; The Kingdom of Offa ; Offa's Leechdom ; Offa's Book of the Dead ; Offa's Laws ; Offa's Coins ; Offa's Coins ; Offa's Coins ; Offa's Laws ; Offa's Bestiary ; Offa's Sword ; Offa's Journey to Rome ; Offa's Journey to Rome ; Offa's Laws ; Offa's "Defence of the English People" ; The Kingdom of Offa ; Opus Anglicanum ; Opus Anglicanum ; Opus Anglicanum ; Opus Anglicanum ; Offa's Bestiary ; The Death of Offa ; The Death of Offa ; The Death of Offa ; The Death of Offa -- Tenebrae (1978). The Pentecost Castle ; Lachrimae ; An Apology for the Revival of Christian Architecture in England ; Two Chorale-Preludes ; A Pre-Raphaelite Notebook ; Terribilis Est Locus Iste ; Veni Coronaberis ; Florentines ; "Christmas Trees" ; Tenebrae -- The Mystery of the Charity of Charles Péguy (1983) -- Hymns to Our Lady of Chartres (1982-2012) -- Canaan (1996). To the High Court of Parliament ("Where's probity in this") ; That Man as a Rational Animal Desires the Knowledge Which Is His Perfection ; Sobieski's Shield ; Of Coming into Being and Passing Away ; De Anima ; Whether the Virtues are Emotions ; Whether Moral Virtue Comes by Habituation ; Ritornelli ; To William Cobbett : In Absentia ; Canaan ; Dark-Land ("Aspiring Grantham") ; Mysticism and Democracy ("You see the terrain") ; Scenes with Harlequins ; Postlude ; Algabal ; Mysticism and Democracy ("Do not stand witness") ; Dark-Land ("Wherein Wesley stood") ; To the Nieuport Scout ; Parentalia ("The here-and-now finds vigil") ; Respublica ; De Jure Belli ac Pacis ; Cycle ; Sorrel ; Parentalia ("Go your ways") ; Mysticism and Democracy ("To the Evangelicals") ; Churchill's Funeral ; To the High Court of Parliament ("Keep what in repair") ; Pisgah ; To John Constable : In Absentia ; Dark-Land ("Are these last things") ; Mysticism and Democracy ("Ill-conceived, ill-ordained") ; Ezekiel's Wheel ; Psalms of Assize ; A Song of Degrees ; Of Constancy and Measure ; To William Law : In Absentia ; Concerning Inheritance ; Mysticism and Democracy ("Great gifts foreclosed on") ; To the High Court of Parliament ("who could outbalance") -- The Triumph of Love (1998) -- Speech! Speech! (2000) -- The Orchards of Syon (2002) -- Scenes from Comus (2005). The Argument of the Masque ; Courtly Masquing Dances ; A Description of the Antimasque -- Without Title (2006). Improvisation on "O Welt ich muss dich lassen" ; Without Title ; Chromatic Tunes ; In Ipsley Church Lane 1 ; The Jumping Boy ; On the Reality of the Symbol ; Insert Here ; Tu B'Shevat ; Children's Games ; To Lucien Richard : On Suffering ; Wild Clematis in Winter ; Offertorium : December 2002 ; Epiphany at Hurcott ; Epiphany at Saint Mary and All Saints ; Discourse : For Stanley Rosen ; In Ipsley Church Lane 2 ; Improvisations for Jimi Hendrix ; To the Teller of Fortunes ; Ex Propertio ; Ars ; On the Sophoclean Moment in English Poetry ; In the Valley of the Arrow ; Improvisations for Hart Crane ; In Ipsley Church Lane 3 ; Offertorium : Suffolk, July 2003 ; Broken Hierarchies ; The Storm ; Luxe, Calme et Volupté ; Improvisation on "Warum ist uns das Licht gegeben?" -- Pindarics (2005-2012) -- A Treatise of Civil Power (2007). The Minor Prophets ; Citations I ; Citations II ; On Reading Milton and the English Revolution ; Holbein ; Parallel Lives ; Masques ; Harmonia Sacra ; On Reading Blake : Prophet Against Empire ; To the Lord Protector Cromwell ; On Reading Crowds and Power ; A Cloud in Aquila ; In Framlingham Church ; De Necessitate ; After Reading Children of Albion (1969) ; Integer Vitae ; On Looking Through 50 Jahre im Bild : Bundesrepublik Deutschland ; A Précis or Memorandum of Civil Power ; G.F. Handel, Opus 6 ; An Emblem ; The Peacock at Alderton ; In Memoriam : Gillian Rose ; Johannes Brahms, Opus 2 ; In Memoriam : Aleksander Wat ; Before Senility ; On Reading The Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall ; In Memoriam : Ernst Barlach ; The Oath ; Coda ; Lyric Fragment ; Nachwort -- Ludo (2011) -- The Daybooks (2007-2012). Expostulations on the Volcano ; Liber Illustrium Virorum ; Oraclau, Oracles ; Clavics ; Odi Barbare ; Al Tempo de'Tremuoti. |
| Note |
"Collects twenty-one books of poems by Geoffrey Hill, written over sixty years, and presents them in their definitive form. Four of these books (Ludo, Expostulations on the Volcano, Liber Illustrium Virorum, and Al Tempo de'Tremuoti) have never before appeared in print, and three of them (Hymns to Our Lady of Chartes, Pindarics, and Clavics) have been greatly revised and expanded."--Provided by publisher. |
| Summary |
'Broken Hierarchies' brings together twenty books of poems by Geoffrey Hill, offering a complete collection of his poetry from 1952-2012. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Language |
Text in English. |
| Subject |
English poetry -- 21st century.
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English poetry -- 20th century.
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English poetry. (OCoLC)fst00912278
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Literature.
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| Chronological Term |
1900 - 2099
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| Added Author |
Haynes, Kenneth, 1966- editor.
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| Added Title |
Poems. Selections
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| ISBN |
9780199605897 (hardcover) |
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0199605890 (hardcover) |
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9780198713180 (paperback) |
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0198713185 (paperback) |
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