The Orchards Of Syon by Geoffrey Hill
In the words of the magazine Poetry Review, a kind of late fury has gripped Geoffrey Hill in recent years after a decade's silence, with Canaan (1996), The Triumph of Love (1998), Speech! Speech! (2001) - all published in Penguin - and now this new volume. All these books are driven by a profound quarrel with the modern world. This new book consists of 72 numbered poems, each of 24 lines. Together they make up a kind of Dantean eclogue in which the landscape of Hill's youth - rural Worcestershire - offers a glimpse of paradise in the midst of the modern world. This is a major poet writing serious, beautiful poetry.
Geoffrey Hill was born in Bromsgrove, Worcs, in 1932, the son of a local policeman. He taught for many years at the Universities of Leeds and Cambridge, but moved to the USA in 1988 and is currently Professor of Literature and Religion at the University of Boston. He is widely regarded as one of our greatest poets.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780141009919 |
| ISBN 10 | 0141009918 |
| Title | The Orchards Of Syon |
| Author | Geoffrey Hill |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2002-09-05 |
| Number of pages | 96 |
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