Geoffrey Hill

Sir Geoffrey Hill ( born June 18, 1932 in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, England) is a British poet and professor emeritus of English literature and religion at Boston University.

Life

When Hill was six years old, his family moved to Fairfield in Worcestershire, where he attended school. From 1950 he attended Keble College, Oxford, where he studied English and already published his first poems. After graduating, he taught from 1954 to 1980 at the University of Leeds.

Harold Bloom has called him the greatest living poet in the English language. He uses several styles. Many of his poems deal with his home, seen historically. Hill is often referred to as a difficult poet. Even he said, poets are likely to be quite difficult. He considers " difficult " to be meant to be democratic, because the desire for simplicity the same request of a tyrant ( in The Paris Review, 2000).

Honors

  • 2012: Knighted ( Knight Bachelor, kt. ) Beaten. Published in the New Year Honours list.

Works

Poetry

  • King Log ( 1968)
  • Mercian Hymns (1971 )
  • Tenebrae (1978 )
  • The Mystery of the Charity of Charles Peguy (1983 )
  • New and Collected Poems (1994 )
  • Canaan (1997)
  • The Triumph of Love ( 1998)
  • Speech! Speech! (2000)
  • The Orchards of Syon (2002)
  • Scenes from Comus (2005)
  • Without Title (2006)
  • Selected Poems (2006)
  • A Treatise of Civil Power ( Clutag Press, 2005 )
  • A Treatise of Civil Power ( Penguin, 2007)

Essays

  • The Lords of Limit ( 1984)
  • The Enemy 's Country (1991 )
  • Style and Faith ( 2003)
Penguin Books Oxford Professor of Poetry Matthew Arnold Francis Turner Palgrave A. C. Bradley Adam Fox Cecil Day-Lewis Edmund Blunden Roy Fuller Seamus Heaney James Fenton Paul Muldoon Ruth Padel Name Authority File
366397
de