Showing posts with label Christopher Ricks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christopher Ricks. Show all posts

Saturday, December 14, 2013

Rahim's Hill = expressiveness

The interview with Sir Geoffrey Hill in today's Telegraph, by Sameer Rahim, the deputy literary editor of the journal, is excellent; and the photos by Clara Molden are as grand as the text itself. Hill claims he is after "expressiveness" in poetry.

Sameer Rahim, "Geoffrey Hill: Poetry should be shocking and surprising," Telegraph (December 14, 2013).

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

True Friendship

Something to look forward to: Christopher Ricks is due to publish True Frienship: Geoffrey Hill, Anthony Hecht, and Robert Lowell Under the Sign of Eliot and Pound with Yale University Press in February 2010.