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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Houghton Mifflin
Publication date September 1, 1998
Pages 82
Binding Hardcover
Book category Adult Fiction
ISBN-13 9780395912355
ISBN-10 0395912350
Dimensions 0.50 by 8.25 by 5.75 in.
Weight 0.55 lbs.
Availability§ Out of Print
Original list price $22.00
§As reported by publisher
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Summaries and Reviews
Summary
The author's most personal and sardonic work to date, a book-length poem by a major British bard describes his slow coming-to-terms with the brutality, political idiocy, and ecclesiastic blindness of the twentieth century, and his own failings.
Amazon.com description: Product Description: 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 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.

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from Houghton Mifflin (September 1, 1998)
9780395912355 | details & prices | 82 pages | 8.25 × 5.75 × 0.50 in. | 0.55 lbs | List price $22.00
About: A book-length poem describes the author's slow coming-to-terms with the brutality, political idiocy, and ecclesiastic blindness of the twentieth century, and his own failings
Paperback
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from Mariner Books (January 12, 2000)
9780618001835 | details & prices | 82 pages | 5.50 × 8.00 × 0.25 in. | 0.25 lbs | List price $10.95
About: A book-length poem describes the author's slow coming-to-terms with the brutality, political idiocy, and ecclesiastic blindness of the twentieth century, and his own failings.

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