Framing Charles Peguy: Visualization in Geoffrey Hill’s The Mystery of the Charity of Charles Peguy

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In his Mellon Lectures on Poetry and Painting (1992), published in On The Laws of The Poetic Art, Anthony Hecht suggests that the frame: may constitute one of the most challenging parts of the painter’s achievement, since nothing in our visual experience is framed; and yet a good painting persuades us that everything relevant is contained within the borders of the painting itself, and whatever remains outside is either more of the same or is trivial by comparison. (Hecht, 1995) Geoffrey Hill’..