Nov 23, 2008

Canaan | Canaan

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Author: Geoffrey Hill
First Published: 1996
Type of Work: Poetry
Genres: Poetry
Subjects: Revolutionaries, Twentieth century, Revolutions, Religion, Christianity, Bible, biblical imagery, or biblical symbolism, Nazism or Nazis, Prophecy or prophets, Russia or Russian people, Great Britain

Readers of Geoffrey Hill’s New and Collected Poems, 1952-1992 (1994; see Magill’s Literary Annual, 1995) might feel they can forgo purchase of Canaan, which consists partly of reprinted “new” poems from the former collection, itself an expansion of the earlier Collected Poems (1986; see Magill’s Literary Annual, 1987). It is somehow disheartening to see an aging poet eking out his production over so many volumes. The publisher’s book-jacket blurb makes matters even worse by touting Canaan as Hill’s “first book of poems in over a...

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Canaan | Canaan

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