Passionate Intelligence: The Poetry of Geoffrey Hill

abstract Action Française Afterword allusions Beauce become biography blood Cahiers charity Charles Péguy child Christopher Ricks Coleridge Collected Poems concern contemporary criticism dead death dream Dreyfus echoes elegy Eliot epigraph especially Essays experience F.R. Leavis faith feeling France Geoffrey Hill Georges Bernanos Haffenden Halévy Hill says Hill's poem Hill's poetry human ideas imagery imagination instance Jaurès John John Haffenden Jon Silkin Keith Douglas kind King Log landscape language literally literary living London lyrical meaning meditation memory Mercian Hymns metaphor mind modern moral Mystère mystery mystic obsessions Offa Offa's Oxford passion Péguy's Penguin phrase poem's poet poet's poetic precisely prose quatrain question quotes Péguy recalls referring religious rhetoric rhythms Romain Rolland roots sense sequence sonnet speaking specific spiritual stand strong suffering suggest T.S. Eliot Tenebrae things tradition truth Unfallen verse Villiers violence vision voice witness words writing Yeats