Great Regulars: The final scream recalls the threatening peacock cry

of Wallace Stevens's "Domination of Black". It resonates among the Suffolk stones as a reminder of those disquieting phenomena, often lurking within the beautiful, that are troubling to our sense of self, "poisonous as Ariel/to Prospero's own knowledge", but that cannot be ignored.

[by Geoffrey Hill]

The Peacock at Alderton

from The Times Literary Supplement: Poem of the Week: The Peacock at Alderton by Geoffrey Hill

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