Poetry

From Geoffrey Hill’s "The Triumph of Love"

One almost wonders if he’s intentionally riffing on Auden’s ‘In Praise of Limestone’ (ht MS): […]

David Zahl / 12.3.10

One almost wonders if he’s intentionally riffing on Auden’s ‘In Praise of Limestone’ (ht MS):

Whatever may be meant by moral landscape,

it is for me increasingly a terrain

seen in cross-section: igneous, sedimentary,

conglomerate, metamorphic rock-

strata, in which particular grace,

individual love, decency, endurance,

are traceable across the faults.

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