My post on Section 1 of “The Triumph of Love” is available here. See here for an introductory post on Geoffrey Hill and the poem we’re reading together, and here for a note on method.
Close reading of section 2
Section two is brief and chilling. The phrase, “self-molestation of the child-soul” sank into my mind when I first read this poem years ago and it…
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