on 29/1/05 12:42 AM, Joanna Boulter at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> I don't know about 'best work', but they are among the work of his that
> first hooked me and reeled me in. Don't forget 'Tenebrae', either, or the
> 'Hymns to Our Lady of Chartres'. But I certainly wouldn't like to say that,
> just because it's up to a point easier to get to grips with the earlier
> work, the subsequent stuff isn't worth the trouble.
>
> best joanna
>
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> From: "Douglas Clark" <[log in to unmask]>
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>
>>
>> Make sure you read 'Funeral Music' and 'Mercian Hymns'. To me these are
> his
>> best work.
I see the newly revised Norton Anthology of Poetry - fifth edition - selects
Hill (b.1932) as follows:
The Distant Fury of Battle (1955)
The Guardians
September Song
Mercian Hymns VI, VII, VIII
Lachrimae 1
From An Apology for the Revival...9. The Laurel Axe
Veni Coronaberis (1978)
which sort of suggests that the Norton consultative network of mostly US
poetry-academics is content without later Hill.
Max R
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