I've decided to turn my list of Christina Stead links into a separate page of its own, rather than a series of posts. The posts are still there, but from now on I'll leave them as they are and only update the page.
Good idea! Makes it much easier to find - am hoping to get to The Man Who Loved Children at long last this Easter...and will try not to be intimidated by all that scholarly commentary!
Don't be. Not all of it is scholarly, for a start. "This book was really depressing!" mopes someone at Goodreads. "Ugh!" Good commentary is a pleasure in itself. "That's wonderful," I think, reading it. "I hadn't thought of that. Oh, now I see how I might have looked at it." The Slate discussion is a six-page beauty.
"Geoffrey Hill, a poet regularly hailed as the greatest in the English language, died suddenly on 30 June at the age of 84." | "As if to enrage them further, he produced more and more oblique poems." | "There is no vast imaginative rupture between each of those phases, though there is a sad period of silence." | "Testimonies & other articles." | "I’ve been told he lived just long enough to cheer Iceland on." | G.W. Hill, Form 2L [via] | "It turns out he was something of a bluegrass fan." | "On 29th November 2013, I interviewed the poet Geoffrey Hill." | "It is a question that we might ask of Hill’s later poetry." | "He armored the poems." | "The following sermon was delivered at the funeral of Sir Geoffrey Hill." | "Somebody had the imagination to give Palgrave’s Golden Treasury to the policeman’s son."
Good idea! Makes it much easier to find - am hoping to get to The Man Who Loved Children at long last this Easter...and will try not to be intimidated by all that scholarly commentary!
ReplyDeleteDon't be. Not all of it is scholarly, for a start. "This book was really depressing!" mopes someone at Goodreads. "Ugh!" Good commentary is a pleasure in itself. "That's wonderful," I think, reading it. "I hadn't thought of that. Oh, now I see how I might have looked at it." The Slate discussion is a six-page beauty.
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