Fallen Language
Donald Davie, 21 June 1984
The Lords of Limit: Essays on Literature and Ideas
by Geoffrey Hill.
Deutsch, 203 pp., £12.95, May 1984,0 233 97581 0 Show More
by Geoffrey Hill.
Deutsch, 203 pp., £12.95, May 1984,
“... of these essays in The Lords of Limit were originally given as lectures – if they are hard to read, what must they have been like to listen to! Hill, however, won’t compromise. In one essay here he excuses, he almost applauds, the Victorian philosopher T.H. Green for being, as a lecturer, perplexed and perplexing. And in another, which doesn’t ... ”