Logan's reviews always seem to be more about Logan than about the poet he is
reviewing.
jd
On Jan 20, 2008 11:32 AM, Robin Hamilton <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> > As far as I know, the Penguin edition is a straight reprint of the 2005
> > Clutag edition. But don't take my word for it, I could be wrong.
> >
> > Roger
>
> Further:
>
> <<
> Geoffrey Hill - A Treatise of Civil Power (Clutag Press, 2005)
> PUBLICATION DATE 4th February 2005 NOW SOLD OUT
>
> 48pp 170mm x 240mm ISBN 0-9547275-3-3
>
> A major gathering of new work by one of the great poets, nowhere else
> published nor imminent in other forthcoming collections by Hill (January
> 2005, January 2006), comprising: 'ON READING Milton and the English
> Revolution' (12 x six-line stanzas); 'To the Lord Protector Cromwell' (x4
> sonnets); 'A Treatise of Civil Power' (42 x eight-line stanzas); 'Coda' (8
> x
> eight-line stanzas); 'ON READING Burke on Empire, Liberty, and Reform' (4
> x
> seven-line stanzas); 'ON READING Blake: Prophet Against Empire' (45 lines
> in
> ten irregular stanzas); 'ON READING Hazlitt: Lectures on the English Comic
> Writers' (4 x six line stanzas); and 'A Cloud in Aquila' (6 x four line
> stanzas).
> >>
>
>
> http://www.clutagpress.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18&Itemid=31
>
> "'A Treatise of Civil Power' (42 x eight-line stanzas)" doesn't show up in
> the contents of the Yale (or Penguin?) edition.
>
> There's a review of the Penguin edition by Sean O'Brien here:
>
>
> http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/poetry/article2264179.ece
>
> Robin
>
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Joseph Duemer
Professor of Humanities
Clarkson University
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