I have a feeling it was this one:
Geoffrey Hill Conference: 'Tradition and Translation', Centre for
Research in Philosophy and Literature, University of Warwick. May 22 -
23, 2001. The conference speakers included Edna Longley, QUB and Peter
Mc Donald, Oxford.
A lot of non-Geoffrey-Hill-related things have happened since then...
>I think I shall now be totally innocent and mention his
> textual markings, accents, etc, in the same breath as those of Hopkins.
> Hoping for instruction, you understand .....
I honestly don't know what the particular rationale behind the extra
diacritic marks is. They obviously indicate pauses and emphases, and
here and there enable him to put the right amount of topspin on an
ambiguous phrase. But it's not "sprung rhythm", or anything like it -
more like performance notes, aides memoires for a public speaker.
Dominic
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