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Brand

A Version for the Stage by Geoffrey Hill
Henrik Ibsen - Author
Geoffrey Hill - Adapted by
Inga-Stina Ewbank - Translator
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Book: Paperback | 5.07 x 7.79in | 176 pages | ISBN 9780140446760 | 01 Jan 1997 | Penguin Classic | 18 - AND UP
Brand
The story of a minister driven by faith to risk the death of his wife and child, Brand pits a man of vision against the forces of ignorance and venality. ‘It now has a peculiar glory in English, because the version by the poet Geoffrey Hill (1978) is much the finest Ibsen available to us as poetry. Hill, a master of savage eloquence, is a martyrologist, and his temperament, as manifested in his own poems, is peculiarly Brandian. He declines to call his Brand a translation, but it surpasses any purported translation we have’ – Harold Bloom in The Western Canon
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