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26 mai 2021
- doi: 10.4000/books.apu.20263
- isbn: 9782848323565
- eisbn: 9782848324661
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Madeline Potter, « Geoffrey Hill: Poetry and Liturgy – A Common Language? », Artois Presses Université, ID : 10.4000/books.apu.20263
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Geoffrey Hill’s poetry has often been described as difficult and deliberately mystifying. Hill addressed this issue in an interview with “The Paris Review”, and defended art’s right to be difficult, arguing that humans are difficult beings, and that it is for this reason that we should not expect art “to address us in simplified terms”. Hill notices that we all too often expect art – and especially poetry – to be simple and easily accessible to us; it is precisely this kind of expectation tha...