A colder spell to come.('Scenes from Comus', 'Without Title')(Book review)

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Without Title, by Geoffrey Hill. Penguin Books. 9.99 [pounds sterling].

Scenes From Comus, by Geoffrey Hill. Penguin Books. 9.99 [pounds sterling].

The sense of language as guilt--the sense that words accrue faults, and even seemingly innocent utterances trail remote incriminating meanings the way a bird trails its shadow on the ground--is a heavy presence in twentieth-century poetry, and nowhere heavier than in the work of Geoffrey Hill. That language abets acts of oppression and violence, even incorporates them in its elemental structure; that rhetoric is always, so to ...

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