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An austere opulence.
The Sheldonian Theatre, built from 1664 to 1668 to Christopher Wren's design--his very first, as it happens--felt glacial on the dank evening of February I of this year when Geoffrey Hill appeared there to read from his poems. The theater on Oxford's Broad Street accommodates some 800 people, and the main hall and most of the galleries filled almost as soon as the tall doors swung open. This was a bustling, excited, voluble crowd of expectant listeners and the high dome of the theater echoed with their hubbub. I had come up from London with my friend, the poet and essayist Marius Kociejowski, for the purpose of hearing Hill give what his rather imposing website described ...
- Poetics and power.(A Treatise of Civil Power)(Book review)
- Magazine article from: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life Hart, Kevin April 1, 2008 700+ words
A TREATISE OF CIVIL POWER by GEOFFREY HILL Yale University Press...although with A Treatise of Civil Power Hill is once more writing with...ambiguities. A Treatise of Civil Power gives us, instead, a Hill who is more direct--and...
- A Precis or Memorandum of Civil Power.(Poem)
- Magazine article from: Poetry Hill, Geoffrey May 1, 2006 700+ words
A Precis or Memorandum of Civil Power I Could so have managed not to...uncalled-for, unconnived-at. Civil power now smuggles more retractions than...power of money too. Money's not civil power in itself; more the enforcer...
- ISPR (Army in Aid of Civil Power - Local Body Elections 2005).
- News wire article from: PPI - Pakistan Press International August 17, 2005 700+ words
...troops have been employed in aid of civil power on request of civil administrations...Pakistan Army have been called in aid of civil power in districts of Faisalabad,Jhang...Pakistan Army have been called in aid of civil power in Districts of Karachi, Kashmore...
- Army deployment in aid of civil power in Sindh - ISPR.
- News wire article from: PPI - Pakistan Press International January 31, 2007 700+ words
...administrative tasks when called upon to do so under directive of the civil Government. Army has been requisitioned in aid of civil power by Sindh Government to assist it in controlling law and order, he said. The spokesman said troops have been deployed in...
- ISPR- Army called in aid of civil power to eliminate militants; ISPR.
- News wire article from: PPI - Pakistan Press International May 9, 2009 700+ words
...After the complete break down of Law and order and non adherence of peace deal by the militants, Army was called in aid of civil power to eliminate militants and from Swat valley. According to ISPR press release here Friday, even after the peace deal, the...
- Army deployment in aid of civil power in Sindh.
- News wire article from: PPI - Pakistan Press International January 1, 2008 700+ words
RAWALPINDI , December 28 (PPI): A spokesman of ISPR has said that on requisition of Sindh Government, Army troops have been deployed in 16 districts of the province including Karachi to assist local administration in restoration of law and order. Army authorities have been tasked to coordinate law
- INTERVIEW WITH MARIO TELO (ULB) - CONTINUED : (CONTINUED) EUROPE MUST PLAY ON...
- Newspaper article from: European Report March 6, 2007 700+ words
How do you see Europe's role on the international stage evolving? Whether it be a world that is unipolar (with the EU becoming a province of the United Sates), multipolar with 5-6 nuclear states (a good scenario for Russia, China and India, but not Europe) anarchic and out of control, or based on
- Animadversions upon the remonstrants' defenses against Burgess and Hunter....
- Magazine article from: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 Hunter, William B. January 1, 1994 700+ words
...living Miltonists, Christopher Hill and Maurice Kelley, have denied...the treatise, as Professors Hill and Kelley argue, but their...authorship. But to meet Professor Hill's wider demand is manifestly...these years the prose tracts Of Civil Power and Hirelings (both 1659...
