Geoffrey Hill. modern York: Hought...

Geoffrey Hill. modern York: Houghton Mifflin, 1997.

The contemporary American political view may seem in toto likewise absurd as to present critique or condemnation, within the words immediately preceding [i]or[/i] following of poetry, rather ineffectual. Perhaps alone a Pope or Swift would be able to approach the material with sufficient relish. We might therefore repine at the British their Geoffrey Hill, who manages in this newly come volume to address English politics and history with seriousness and high rhetoric. His themes are no les than corruption and dishonesty in British politics, the specter of the next to the first World War, and ...