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33:00 "Shakespeare's dramatic genius is to take the domain of maxim and axiom, of motto, emblem, and moral fable (as they stand in relation to courage) and refract it through the medium of human behavioural heterogeneity." 👏

Thank you so much for this.

This Hill material is some of the best content on UA-cam. I'm very grateful for your efforts.

Awesome. Thank you.

Thank you once again for these treasures.

Wow!

More Geoffrey Hill? You've made my year. Whilst I'm commenting I want to say thank you so much for uploading all these.

What a lovely surprise

Thanks for sharing!

More Hill - At Last! Thanks for uploading.

I got " dissipated " after the first 2 minutes. But thought I should give it a chance....I lasted another 3 minutes ..!! This is like a Parody of an " up himself " pretentious Oxford Don giving a poetry lecture. Does he ever record his lectures and listen to himself...??

Thank you for posting. Sublime.

Nice that you put these on UA-cam for a wider audience! Charles Williams's Poetry at Present is scanned in the Internet Archive, for anyone interested in following it up - as are assorted things by Abercrombie, who was also an important Tolkien connection!

Go Baz!

seriously -28 seconds of unskippable ads during the peak of the lecture

Why are there ads every 180 seconds? Ruins the lecture.

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hoi Jackson thanks for your channel. It's cool. Appreciate it.

Superb - one of my favourite poems by Hill

Thanks again for posting all this marvellous stuff.

Jackson do you remember which lecture it is where GH describes Mad Meg / Dulle Gret with her eyes rolled back etc?

He is breathing so irregularly I lose my concentration. I'm coming back when I have a little more air.... . ..

19:15 The head is thrust forward, the toothless mouth open, and there is a mad stare in the left eye, looking straight ahead at nothing

Many thanks for uploading

Hill mentions "Old Bank notepaper" several times. Is this something one can still buy?

Oh, this is such a treasure. What a brilliant scholar. What a stunning poet. What a beautiful soul. Thank you for posting this.

Thank you so very much for posting this. Many of Geoffrey Hill's poems have lived in my heart for decades. It is truly wondrous to hear Hill perform these in his lovely, deep, inimitable voice. . "I liked that," said Offa, "sing it again."

Of all the lectures, this is the the one more profound, most difficult.

Ay! At 9:35, the sound of English plebes is a reminder.... .. .

Great channel

the ants a centaur in his dragon world

my ear is telling me that there is something wonderful going on here. The quality of the recording is also remarkable. Thanks!

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Ezra Pound said the same thing, but much more economically: 'Dichtung = condensare.

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Very pleasant lecture. Thank you.

Rarely or often a moment spent. Thank you!

Many thanks for the Lecture! I love so much! So stimulative. And I perceive i get his leaning early, ever on. I love what Pound aimed at...too, among so many, in line with evidence and Poetry which must stay with knowing, and equality, and the people, as must philosophy.

Do you really mean to say that heterosexual men never feel tenderness? Or, if they do so, only towards the opposite sex? Oh come on now! You know this is nonsense!

Blake's Prophetic Books for the most part are written in fourteeners. If I remember rightly unrhymed. Which is as much as to say ballad metre. Which to me seems strangely appropriate. (Cf. Arthur Golding's version of - is it? - the Metamorphoses of Ovid.)

His lectures are better than many people's poems (including his own). Indeed he sounds as if he is declaiming a poem. A very great poem. Should one consider them as poems? I must say I'm inclined to do so.

How can he read 80 so well and 81 so badly? I think he's taking the

Anything from this most recent, most English of English Poets! His bid in all-encompass which poetry is! And beware the redundancy! Yes! Also, somehow I don't recall knowing, until just now, he was no longer physically with us. Good God Bless and Keep Good Sir! And hear another Thank You!

thanks for uploading

Quite wonderful!

Had one, because of the work, hero, older model, for Literature, against the rule and for, "...to establish the connection in principle and in detail, directly or mediately, between politics and eternity!" There is little would haggle with, we have our lore, and "studied equanimity over the port..." nothing ruled out, "of the civil constitution," here for Joseph Duvernay - this man! Applaud I Geoffrey Hill!

Amazing thank you

Many years ago, Boston U.'s show "World of Ideas" featured a reading by Hill of "English Devotional Poetry" from c. 16th-20th centuries. For some reason they took it down a long time ago. Any chance anyone got a copy of that before it was memory-holed?

Doesn't look down on the damned, but appropriates them into a cruel theology. No thanks.