Hill, Geoffrey
Hill, Geoffrey ( 1932 – ),poet and lecturer, born in Bromsgrove and educated there and at Keble College, Oxford. His first volume of poetry was For the Unfallen ( 1959 ), followed by King Log ( 1968 ), Mercian Hymns ( 1971 ), which consists of prose poems celebrating Offa, ‘a presiding genius of the West Midlands’, and Tenebrae ( 1978 ). His early works show the influence of Blake and A. E. Housman ; his language is rich and complex, and his themes predominantly historical and religious, many of the poems brooding over the violence of the near and distant past. His long poem The Mystery of the Charity of Charles Péguy ( 1983 ) is a densely allusive meditation on the life, faith, and death of the French poet Péguy . Canaan ( 1996 ), a volume in which distinct poetic sequences are interwoven, mulls over the political and religious history of England, and denounces...
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