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Modern Mercia: Geoffrey Hill, Mercian Hymns

Primary

Geoffrey Hill, Mercian Hymns (London: André Deutsch, 1971)

Secondary

• Dodsworth, M., ‘Offa, Charlemagne and Geoffrey Hill’, Geoffrey Hill: Essays on his Work, ed. P. Robinson (Milton Keynes, 1985), pp. 49-61
• Edwards, M., ‘Hill’s Imitations’, Geoffrey Hill: Essays on his Work, ed. P. Robinson (Milton Keynes, 1985), pp. 159-71
• Gifford, H., ‘Hill and the Dictionary’, Geoffrey Hill: Essays on his Work, ed. P. Robinson (Milton Keynes, 1985), pp. 149-58
• Hart, H., The Poetry of Geoffrey Hill (Carbondale, 1986)
• Sherry, V., The Uncommon Tongue: The Poetry and Criticism of Geoffrey Hill (Ann Arbor, 1987)
• Weisman, K. A., 'Romantic Constructions and Epic Subversions in Geoffrey Hill's Mercian Hymns', Modern Language Quarterly 57 (1996), 37-49
• Kerrigan, J., 'Divided Kingdoms and the Local Epic: Mercian Hymns to The King of Britain's Daughter', Yale Journal of Criticism 13 (2000), 3-21
• Ingelbien, R., Misreading England: Poetry and Nationhood Since the Second World War, Costerus New Series 142 (Amsterdam, 2002)
• Roberts, A. M., Geoffrey Hill (Tavistock, 2003)
• Wainwright, J., Acceptable Words: Essays on the Poetry of Geoffrey Hill (Manchester, 2005)
• Wainwright, J., ‘The Impossibility of Death’, Geoffrey Hill: Essays on his Later Work, ed. J. Lyon and P. McDonald (Oxford, 2012), pp. 89-111
• Crawforth, H. J., ‘‘Overlord of the M5’: The Superlative Structure of Sovereignty in Geoffrey Hill's Mercian Hymns’, Anglo-Saxon Culture and the Modern Imagination, ed. D. Clark and N. Perkins, Medievalism 1 (Cambridge, 2010), pp. 219-36
• Davies, H., ''The Castaway of Drowned Remorse, the World's Atonement on the Hill'' History, Language and Theopoetics: Geoffrey Hill's Dialogue with David Jones in Mercian Hymns and Tenebrae', Études Anglaises 71 (2018), 154-67

Other

• Frank Skinner, Podcast on the Mercian Hymns: https://www.podbean.com/media/share/dir-hes62-1ac9a874

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