Selected Poems - Softcover

Hill, Professor Of Poetry Geoffrey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0300164300 ISBN 13: 9780300164305

Publisher: Yale University Press, 2010

Synopsis

A sampling from the oeuvre of one of the greatest living poets of the English language

Geoffrey Hill's poetry comprises one of the most uncompromising and visionary bodies of work written over the last fifty years. Imbued with the weight of history, morality, and language, his work reveals a deeply religious sensibility, a towering intellect, and an emotional complexity that are unrivaled in contemporary letters. Now, for the first time ever, readers can observe in one volume how Hill's style took shape over time. This generous selection spans his career, beginning with poems from Hill's astonishing debut, For the Unfallen, and following through to his stylistically distinct and critically acclaimed work Without Title. Including some of the poet's strongest, most sensitive, and most brilliant pieces, this collection will reaffirm Hill's reputation as "England's best hope for the Nobel Prize."

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Review:

England's most important living poet (Times)

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 (Daily Telegraph)

Whatever the densities of Hill's expression, or the powerful impacted forces in his syntax and rhythms, this poetry achieves a strength, memorability and precision beyond the abilities of any other poet writing in English (TLS)

About the Author:

Geoffrey Hill is the author of eleven books of poetry. He has received numerous awards for his work, including the Hawthornden Prize, the Heinemann Award, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, and the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize. He resides in Cambridge, England.

About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0300164300
• ISBN 13: 9780300164305
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288