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Canaan Book

The Washington Post Book World refers to the "sensuality and coiled force" of Geoffrey Hill's poetry, and Donald Hall calls him "the best English poet of the twentieth century." In this collection, Hill takes on the role of prophet and witness, expressing outrage over England's recent history and politics. There is a deeper resonance in the writing, too, which is alluded to in the title. Hill suggests that most of human history and politics is corrupt and inhumane, and he is angry. Hill's is powerful writing that marries the earthly and the spiritual. Read More

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The Lord sent the Children of Israel into Canaan, the enemy's country, to topple the idols worshiped there. Instead they settled among the heathen, forgot their Lord, and made themselves slaves to earthly pleasures. For Geoffrey Hill, England, indeed all"this common Europe" has become a second Canaan, a land whose people have squandered their inheritance, betrayed their higher selves, and are daily "stained with their own works," where "Evil is not good's absence but gravity's/everlasting bedrock." Hill's passionate and resistant poetry renews the struggle to redeem that land.

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Canaan Book

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