Talk:Geoffrey Hill

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Sentences such as the following are grossly inappropriate for a non-technical audience:

"The constant buffets of Hill's suspicion or scrupulous wariness of lyric eloquence—can it truly be eloquent?—against his powerful talent for it (in Syon, a sky is 'livid with unshed snow') become in the poems a sort of battle in style, where passages of singing force (ToL: 'The ferns / are breast-high, head-high, the days / lustrous, with their hinterlands of thunder') are balanced with ones of prose-like academese and inscrutable syntax."

(Was the editor attempting to illustrate inscrutable syntax?) It is far more important to illustrate claims with citations than with extracts, since the latter is the lit. crit. equivalent of

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)--cfp (talk) 16:44, 22 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. Part of the article read as obscure & pretentious. Ben Finn (talk) 08:23, 8 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Just for reference, in case it's appropriate for the article. the Wendy Cope parody is titled "Duffa Rex". Agingjb (talk) 19:05, 29 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not quite sure why the link for the collection of poems "King Log" leads to the article on the Aesop fable "The Frogs Who Desired a King" which doesn't actually contain any reference to Hill's use of the phrase. Agingjb (talk) 13:13, 16 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Is that a word? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.189.103.145 (talk) 16:34, 27 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

-- Of course "misperception" is a word. It isn't a marigold. 172.56.27.159 (talk) 13:34, 23 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]