The Triumph of Love (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
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- Author: Geoffrey Hill
- First Published: 1998
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: Love or romance, World War II, Poetry or poets, England or English people, Christianity, Creative process, Bible, biblical imagery, or biblical symbolism, Catholics or Catholic Church
At the age of sixty-six, English poet Geoffrey Hill is among the longest-lived of that select group of contemporary Anglo-American poets whose works will be studied and admired when the horrors of the twentieth century have been all but forgotten. Since the publication of his first book of poems, For the Unfallen (1959), Hill has garnered high praise from a phalanx of formidable critics, among them Harold Bloom, editor of the 1986 Chelsea House edition of critical essays on Hill, who regards the poet as the direct heir of William Blake, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and T. S. Eliot....
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