Geoffrey Hill and the Ends of Poetry

Tom Docherty (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

296 Seiten

2026
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
9781526198266 (ISBN)

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This book shows that the poems of Geoffrey Hill (1932–2016) are characteristically ‘end-directed’, tending constantly towards prosodic and thematic consummations. It offers a new thematic reading of Hill's entire body of work and touches on questions of poetry's ultimate value. -- .

The idea of the end is an essential motivic force in the poetry of Geoffrey Hill (1932–2016). This book shows that Hill’s poems are characteristically ‘end-directed’. They tend towards consummations of all kinds: from the marriages of meanings in puns, or of words in repeating figures and rhymes, to syntactical and formal finalities. The recognition of failure to reach such ends provides its own impetus to Hill's poetry.
This is the first book on Hill to take account of his last works. It is a significant contribution to the study of Hill's poems, offering a new thematic reading of his entire body of work. By using Hill's work as an example, the book also touches on questions of poetry's ultimate value: what are its ends and where does it wish to end up? -- .

Tom Docherty is an independent researcher who received his PhD from Pembroke College, Cambridge in 2018 -- .

Introduction
1 Puns
2 Dead Ends
3 Rhymes
4 Syntaxes
5 Forms
Bibliography
Index -- .

Erscheint lt. Verlag	23.6.2026
Zusatzinfo	0 illustrations
Verlagsort	Manchester
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-13	9781526198266 / 9781526198266
Zustand	Neuware