The Orchards of Syon (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Geoffrey Hill
- First Published: 2002
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Time of Work: 1998-2002
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Memory, Mythology or myths, Twentieth century, Twenty-first century, Religion, England or English people, Christianity, Death or dying, 1990’s, Time, Allusions, 2000’s
Although he emigrated from Great Britain to the United States, Geoffrey Hill remains a poet whose roots and subject matter, with rare exceptions, are English. The Orchards of Syon consists of seventy-two twenty-four-line meditative internal monologues about dreams that become imperfect visions about the passage of time, impending death, memory, and religion. Hill, perhaps the least known of the major postmodern poets, works with a tradition associated with writers such as T. S. Eliot (1888- 1965), whose essay on “Tradition and the Individual Talent” stresses the continuity of...
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