Jewish Humanism in the Late Work of Geoffrey Hill

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" Jewish Humanism in the Late Work of Geoffrey Hill "
Jesse Russell

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1081983
Doc. No	:	LA125612
Call No	:	‭10.1163/15685292-02501015‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Jesse Russell
Title & Author	:	Jewish Humanism in the Late Work of Geoffrey Hill [Article]\ Jesse Russell
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Religion and the Arts
Date	:	2021
Volume/ Issue Number	:	25/1-2
Page No	:	99–124
Abstract	:	Throughout much of his career, Geoffrey Hill has been pilloried for his alleged conservativism as well as his positive treatment of Christianity in his poetry. A careful reading of his works, however, reveals a complex thinker who was attentive to the moral fallout of the Holocaust and the Second World War as he was a lover of England and European culture. Moreover, Hill’s writings reflect the apparent influence of a host of personalist, existentialist and what could also be called “humanist” twentieth century Jewish thinkers such as Martin Buber and Emmanuel Levinas. Throughout his poetry—especially his later work—Hill attempts (whether successfully or not) to fuse together this Jewish humanism with his own Christian and English voice.
Descriptor	:	Christianity
Descriptor	:	Emmanuel Levinas
Descriptor	:	Geoffrey Hill
Descriptor	:	Holocaust
Descriptor	:	humanism
Descriptor	:	Martin Buber
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/15685292-02501015‬