The Enemy’s Country (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Geoffrey Hill
- First Published: 1991
- Type of Work: Literary criticism
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, Essays
- Subjects: Language or languages, Politics, Literature, Art or artists, Poetry or poets, Holocaust, Jewish, Learning or scholarship, Aesthetics
Geoffrey Hill’s second collection of essays is a continuation of the tapestry of meditations on the possibilities and limitations of poetry in The Lords of Limit: Essays on Literature and Ideas (1984). Readers of this work will find the same embattled strategies found in the earlier collection: a defense of his own poetics woven through tightly reticulated studies of lesser known works of major authors or major works of lesser known authors. Hill considers carefully ideas about language, judgment, and context in Thomas Hobbes, John Donne, John Dryden, and particularly Ezra...
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