The Triumph of Love |
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| Author:
| Hill, Geoffrey |
| ISBN: | 978-0-395-91235-5 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 1998 |
| Publisher: | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $22.00 |
Book Description:
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Geoffrey Hill is a moralist, and his subject is pain - the pain inflicted by man upon man. Alone among contemporary poets, he dares to judge our record of violence against ourselves. And if he judges us all for our failings - for both our enormities and our cowardly responses to them - he judges himself just as fiercely. He prays for divine forgiveness, and for the grace that we need to begin to forgive ourselves. John Hollander has called Geoffrey Hill "powerful, original, and...
More DescriptionGeoffrey Hill is a moralist, and his subject is pain - the pain inflicted by man upon man. Alone among contemporary poets, he dares to judge our record of violence against ourselves. And if he judges us all for our failings - for both our enormities and our cowardly responses to them - he judges himself just as fiercely. He prays for divine forgiveness, and for the grace that we need to begin to forgive ourselves. John Hollander has called Geoffrey Hill "powerful, original, and profound -- the finest British poet of our time." The justice of this estimation is apparent in every page of The Triumph of Love, a masterpiece in the forgotten mode of laus et vituperatio, a protest against evil and a tribute to those who have the courage to resist it.