Geoffrey Hill Zinger: Theodor Adorno vs. William Logan?

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Theodor Adorno vs. William Logan?

"Political slogans, designed for mass manipulation, unanimously stigmatize as 'luxury', 'snobism', and 'highbrow', everything cultural which displeases the commissars," wrote Adorno in 1949... and in 2008 one might consider swinging that phrase at William Logan's recent review of Hill's A Treatise of Civil Power in the New York Times Sunday Book Review (January 20, 2008).

For a review of Logan's The Undiscovered Country: Poetry in the Age of Tin (2005) by Brian Henry, see Verse.

International Conferences & Seminars

2008 Keble College, Oxford, "Geoffrey Hill and His Contexts"

2008 Université Paris Sorbonne-Paris IV, "British Poetry 1950-2008 and the Public/Private Divide"

2008 Université de Caen, "Selected Poems from Modernism to Now"

2007 University of Warwick, "Poets Reading Philosophy, Philosophers Reading Poetry"

2005 University of London (ESSE 8), "British & European: The Poetry of Geoffrey Hill"

2003 Université de Caen, "La Poésie de Geoffrey Hill et la modernité"

2002 Université Denis Diderot-Paris VII, "Collage, Montage, Assemblage: Poésie Anglophone"

2001 University of Warwick, "Tradition and Translation: The Work of Geoffrey Hill"