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A Survey of African Poetry in the London Times, Sunday Times, Financial Times, the Times Literary Supplement 1865-1985

A change of address (2002-01-25)

Type

Book Review

Published

2002-01-25
The Times Literary Supplement

Authors (1)

Potts, Robert

Citation

"A change of address", The Times Literary Supplement, 25 Jan 2002, p. 25 The Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive,, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/EX1200507640/GDCS?u=linc74325&sid=GDCS&xid=eb82ab4f. Accessed 23 Jan 2020

Excerpt

[Excerpt]: Robert Potts reviews Geoffrey Hill's Speech! Speech! ... "One of the students whom Geoffrey Hill taught at Cambridge (1981-8) used to quote his tutor in letters to friends... Reading Geoffrey Hill can itself feel like receiving a reading list--one is frequently referred to texts and events with which one is unhappily unfamiliar--but the matter of Hill's 'difficulty' (his pun in The Triumph of Love, that he is 'charged with erudition', did little to allay criticism of his range of references) has surely been adequately dealt with, not least by the poet himself... The writers Chinua Achebe and Christopher Okigbo, variously alluded to, both worked for Nigerian radio before the Befran conflict, sinister and exemplary details of which are found throughout Speech! Speech! ..."

Related People (12)

  • Achebe, Chinua 'Albert Chinualumogu' | Poet
  • Okigbo, Christopher | Poet
  • Hill, Geoffrey | Mentioned Poet
  • Yeats, William Butler 'W. B.' | Mentioned Poet
  • Pound, Ezra | Mentioned Poet
  • Eliot, Thomas Stearns 'T. S.' | Mentioned Poet
  • Lewis, C. S. | Writer
  • Grass, Günter Wilhelm | Writer
  • Bonhoeffer, Dietrich | Writer
  • Nagy, Imre | Politician
  • Potts, Robert | Critic
  • Potts, Robert | Article Author

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  • The Times Literary Supplement