Alex Wylie
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781526124944
- eISBN:
- 9781526150356
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7765/9781526124951
- Subject:
- Literature, Poetry
Geoffrey Hill’s work from 1996-2016 is a distinct phase and a development from his earlier work. This later phase is instigated by a divergence from T.S. Eliot and by Hill’s critiques of such ...
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Geoffrey Hill’s work from 1996-2016 is a distinct phase and a development from his earlier work. This later phase is instigated by a divergence from T.S. Eliot and by Hill’s critiques of such modernist poets as W.B. Yeats and Ezra Pound, along with an abiding commitment to modernist claims about poetry. Hill’s divergence from these figures takes the form of a strenuous re-reading of modernism and its legacies, and at its heart is a close engagement with the work of F.H. Bradley, the philosopher on whom Eliot wrote his doctoral dissertation. The poetry and criticism of this period is energised by a perplexed commitment to being and an attendant sense of swimming against the stream of the “stridently post-cultural” postmodern moment in which this work takes its place. The philosophical notion of “intrinsic value” is accordingly central to this later work, as is the cultural-political sense of this period being one of “plutocratic anarchy”. The political place of poetry, and what this book in its final chapter terms the political imagination, is a crucial element in the later work, and is placed in the context of such figures as Coleridge, Wordsworth, Ruskin, Shakespeare and Dante. The cultural politics at the heart of Hill’s later achievement is also explored, drawing on the work of George Steiner, Gabriel Marcel, and Noam Chomsky, among others, along with his controversial commitment to the right of art to be difficult and his assertion that such difficulty is truly democratic.Less
Geoffrey Hill’s work from 1996-2016 is a distinct phase and a development from his earlier work. This later phase is instigated by a divergence from T.S. Eliot and by Hill’s critiques of such modernist poets as W.B. Yeats and Ezra Pound, along with an abiding commitment to modernist claims about poetry. Hill’s divergence from these figures takes the form of a strenuous re-reading of modernism and its legacies, and at its heart is a close engagement with the work of F.H. Bradley, the philosopher on whom Eliot wrote his doctoral dissertation. The poetry and criticism of this period is energised by a perplexed commitment to being and an attendant sense of swimming against the stream of the “stridently post-cultural” postmodern moment in which this work takes its place. The philosophical notion of “intrinsic value” is accordingly central to this later work, as is the cultural-political sense of this period being one of “plutocratic anarchy”. The political place of poetry, and what this book in its final chapter terms the political imagination, is a crucial element in the later work, and is placed in the context of such figures as Coleridge, Wordsworth, Ruskin, Shakespeare and Dante. The cultural politics at the heart of Hill’s later achievement is also explored, drawing on the work of George Steiner, Gabriel Marcel, and Noam Chomsky, among others, along with his controversial commitment to the right of art to be difficult and his assertion that such difficulty is truly democratic.
Massimo Bacigalupo
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- January 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781949979008
- eISBN:
- 9781789629675
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781949979008.003.0009
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
In 1939 Pound was planning a finale for The Cantos that would present religious elements. In the process he wrote a paper, “European Paideuma,” which remained unpublished because of the war. This ...
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In 1939 Pound was planning a finale for The Cantos that would present religious elements. In the process he wrote a paper, “European Paideuma,” which remained unpublished because of the war. This article is reprinted here and mined for the rich information it offers about notions and particular rituals alluded to in The Cantos.Less
In 1939 Pound was planning a finale for The Cantos that would present religious elements. In the process he wrote a paper, “European Paideuma,” which remained unpublished because of the war. This article is reprinted here and mined for the rich information it offers about notions and particular rituals alluded to in The Cantos.
Massimo Bacigalupo
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- January 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781949979008
- eISBN:
- 9781789629675
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781949979008.003.0011
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
Pound wrote and partially published two Cantos in Italian at the close of the war, 1944-45. He suppressed them during his lifetime because of their strenuous defence of Italian Fascism. They are ...
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Pound wrote and partially published two Cantos in Italian at the close of the war, 1944-45. He suppressed them during his lifetime because of their strenuous defence of Italian Fascism. They are among his most engaging and revealing writings. They are here translated into English, annotated thoroughly, and contextualized.Less
Pound wrote and partially published two Cantos in Italian at the close of the war, 1944-45. He suppressed them during his lifetime because of their strenuous defence of Italian Fascism. They are among his most engaging and revealing writings. They are here translated into English, annotated thoroughly, and contextualized.
Massimo Bacigalupo
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- January 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781949979008
- eISBN:
- 9781789629675
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781949979008.003.0006
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
Eugenio Montale, the Italian poet and Nobel Prize recipient, frequently met Pound before World War II and wrote about him and his plight in the 1950s and 60s. The chapter establishes parallels ...
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Eugenio Montale, the Italian poet and Nobel Prize recipient, frequently met Pound before World War II and wrote about him and his plight in the 1950s and 60s. The chapter establishes parallels between the careers of the two poets and presents their reciprocal, mostly friendly, relations and views. The chapter is of special use in showing what an astute and canonical Italian intellectual like Montale made of the Pound phenomenon.Less
Eugenio Montale, the Italian poet and Nobel Prize recipient, frequently met Pound before World War II and wrote about him and his plight in the 1950s and 60s. The chapter establishes parallels between the careers of the two poets and presents their reciprocal, mostly friendly, relations and views. The chapter is of special use in showing what an astute and canonical Italian intellectual like Montale made of the Pound phenomenon.
Massimo Bacigalupo
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- January 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781949979008
- eISBN:
- 9781789629675
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781949979008.003.0007
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
Carlo Izzo, an Italian scholar, saw a lot of Pound in the 1930s and corresponded with him extensively while translating Pound’s work. Their relation and correspondence casts new light on Pound’s ...
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Carlo Izzo, an Italian scholar, saw a lot of Pound in the 1930s and corresponded with him extensively while translating Pound’s work. Their relation and correspondence casts new light on Pound’s Italian relations and on his poetry, of which he provided explications to Izzo.Less
Carlo Izzo, an Italian scholar, saw a lot of Pound in the 1930s and corresponded with him extensively while translating Pound’s work. Their relation and correspondence casts new light on Pound’s Italian relations and on his poetry, of which he provided explications to Izzo.
Massimo Bacigalupo
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- January 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781949979008
- eISBN:
- 9781789629675
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781949979008.003.0012
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
An interpretation and survey of Pound’s most famous poem and its processes of composition.
An interpretation and survey of Pound’s most famous poem and its processes of composition.
Massimo Bacigalupo
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- January 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781949979008
- eISBN:
- 9781789629675
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781949979008.003.0015
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
A personal account of Pound’s final years (1962-72) in Rapallo and of the crucial role his companion Olga Rudge played in his rehabilitation.
A personal account of Pound’s final years (1962-72) in Rapallo and of the crucial role his companion Olga Rudge played in his rehabilitation.
