Finding Consonance in the Disparities: Geoffrey Hill, John Milton, and Modernist Poetics
This article considers the technical features which Geoffrey Hill has appropriated from his precursor John Milton. These features enabled Hill to evolve a poetics, in his recent work, which is cognizant of the formal possibilities of modernism, but which overcomes their political and cultural danger...
| Publié dans: | The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies. - Modern Humanities Research Association, 2009. - 111(2016), 3, Seite 665-683 |
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| Format: | Article en ligne |
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2016
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| Accès à la collection: | The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies |
| Sujets: | Arts Linguistics Behavioral sciences Business |
| Résumé: | This article considers the technical features which Geoffrey Hill has appropriated from his precursor John Milton. These features enabled Hill to evolve a poetics, in his recent work, which is cognizant of the formal possibilities of modernism, but which overcomes their political and cultural dangers. Hill's Miltonic poetics, alternatively, offer a politics, and ultimately a metaphysics, which understands fine distinctions, and specific unities, between its often recalcitrant materials. While drawing upon Hill's critical responses to Milton, the article also deploys materials from the archive to consider the cruxes out of which some of Hill's recent work has found its instigation. |
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| ISSN: | 22224297 |
| DOI: | 10.5699/modelangrevi.111.3.0665 |