Selected Poems

Selected Poems

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This first selection of Geoffrey Hill’s poetry charts the evolution of a complex, uncompromising, visionary body of work over fifty years. It includes poems from Hill’s astonishing debut, For the Unfallen, through the verset-sequence Mercian Hymns, to acclaimed recent work, including The Orchards of Syon and Without Title.

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Weight 0.232 kg
Dimensions 1.8 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm
Format
Language

Pages

288
Publisher

Year Published

2006-6-1
Imprint

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom
ISBN 10

014102500X
About The Author

Born in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, in 1932, Geoffrey Hill is the author of three books of criticism and eleven books of poetry, including The Triumph of Love, co-winner of the Heinemann Award. His Collected Poems, Canaan, The Triumph of Love, Speech! Speech!, The Orchards of Syon, Scenes from Comus and Without Title are all published by Penguin. Hill currently lives and teaches in Massachusetts, where he is Professor of Literature and Religion at Boston University. He is also Honorary Fellow of Keble College, Oxford; Honorary Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge; Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature; and since 1996 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

England's most important living poet
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Hill so entirely eclipses most of his contemporaries that it seems meaningless to rank in relation to them. Trumpets should be blown, garlands made … loquacious, playful, wildly comic … poignant. His greatness is as certain as that of the poets he invokes

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