Seven essays on the moral life of literature and the moral burden of the poet seek to rescue key literary works from misinterpretation, in a collection that covers such texts as the Oxford English Dictionary, Tyndale's Bible, and poems by Henry Vaughan and T.S. Eliot. In this, his first collection of essays in more than a decade, Geoffrey Hill again returns to "the Enemy's country, " that fallen world where both scholarship and ignorance lie in ambush...