Geoffrey Hill Zinger: Yet again Mercian

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Yet again Mercian

Louise Kemeny in "Archeology of Words — Geoffrey Hill's Mercian Hymns (The Literateur, September 27, 2009) says that the second hymn verset of the poem gives us a riddle right out of the Anglo-Saxon period, which "relied heavily upon the manipulation of idiom and phonetic word play." Speaking of word play, to what extent should one consider word breaks in a prose poem?

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"