Canaan

by Hill, Geoffrey

Edition: 1st

ISBN13: 9780395924860

ISBN10: 0395924863

Format: Paperback

Pub. Date: 1998-09-11

Publisher(s): Lightning Source Inc

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Summary

Here is public poetry of uncommon moral urgency: it bears witness to the sufferings of the innocent at the hands of history and to the martyrdom of those who have dared look history in the eye. "Rich, quarrelsome...handsome and brutish...Hill's poetry is the major achievement of late-twentieth-century verse," says The New Criterion. "Canaan is one of the few serious books we will have to mark the millennium."

Author Biography

Geofrey Hill was born in 1932, in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire. He is the author of five books of poetry, two volumes of literary criticism, and a stage version of Isben's poetic drama Brand. He teaches in the University Professors Program at Boston University. He currently resides in Brookline, Massachusetts

To the High Court of Parliament ('Where's probity in this ...')	p. 1
That Man as a Rational Animal Desires the Knowledge Which Is His Perfection	p. 2
Sobieski's Shield	p. 3
Of Coming into Being and Passing Away	p. 4
De Anima	p. 5
Whether the Virtues Are Emotions	p. 6
Whether Moral Virtue Comes by Habituation	p. 7
Ritornelli	p. 8
To William Cobbett: In Absentia	p. 9
Canaan	p. 10
Dark-Land ('Aspiring Grantham ...')	p. 13
Mysticism and Democracy ('You see the terrain ...')	p. 14
Scenes with Harlequins	p. 15
Postlude	p. 23
Algabal	p. 24
Mysticism and Democracy ('Do not stand witness ...')	p. 25
Dark-Land ('Wherein Wesley stood ...')	p. 26
To the Nieuport Scout	p. 27
Parentalia ('The here-and-now finds vigil ...')	p. 28
Respublica	p. 29
De Jure Belli ac Pacis	p. 30
Cycle	p. 38
Sorrel	p. 40
Parentalia ('Go your ways ...')	p. 41
Mysticism and Democracy ('To the Evangelicals ...')	p. 42
Churchill's Funeral	p. 43
To the High Court of Parliament ('Keep what in repair ...')	p. 51
Pisgah	p. 52
To John Constable: In Absentia	p. 53
Dark-Land ('Are these last things ...')	p. 54
Mysticism and Democracy ('Ill-conceived ...')	p. 55
Ezekiel's Wheel	p. 56
Psalms of Assize	p. 60
A Song of Degrees	p. 67
Of Constancy and Measure	p. 68
To William Law: In Absentia	p. 69
Concerning Inheritance	p. 70
Mysticism and Democracy ('Great gifts foreclosed on ...')	p. 71
To the High Court of Parliament ('- who could outbalance ...')	p. 72
Acknowledgements	p. 75
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