I'd just finished reading the Logan review when Roger's post appeared.
Pretty useless, I thought (why do critics feel they have to waffle
portentiously?) but the quotations from Hill's poems were enough to send me
off to order the book immediately.
I was puzzled by the discussion of the poem on Thomas Cromwell and Wyatt
that Logan quotes. The sonnet itself was intriguing, and some of the
background that Logan notes was useful, but his discussion seemed to ignore
or avoid or be unaware of the weird disjunction between what the sonnet says
about Wyatt and what we "know" -- or does Logan know something that I don't?
And the point about a link between Hill's earlier garrulity and his use of
antidepressants was I suppose interesting, more so (the one substantial
element of the review) that the title poem was dismembered from an earlier
publication:
"There's one peculiarity that should be mentioned: Hill published an earlier
version of "A Treatise of Civil Power" in 2005 with a small English press.
The long title poem is missing from this new edition, though scattered
stanzas show up as individual poems ..."
Other than that ...
Robin
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From: "Roger Collett" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2008 5:32 AM
Subject: Hill Review in NYT
> You might be interested in this:
> http://select.nytimes.com/mem/tnt.html?pagewanted=1&tntget=2008/01/20/books/review/Logan-t.html
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