Geoffrey Hill

A collection of new essays on the remarkable work produced by the poet Geoffrey Hill since the mid-1990s. Hill is widely recognised as the finest living English poet and the quality of his recent publications has been matched by the pace at which he produces quantities of profound and startlingly original verse. This book brings together work on Hill by figures as diverse as Rowan Williams and Christopher Ricks, along with penetrating treatments of these latewritings by younger scholars, in order to provide a series of fresh perspectives on some of the finest and most challenging poetry now being written. It explores topics including physicality, death, confession, and recusancy, and also contains a large-scale bibliography of Hill's writings, which will beinvaluable to all those seeking to read more widely in the work of this fascinating and exceptional figure.

This volume contributes a valuable overview of Hill's career ... Highly recommended.

John Lyon is Reader in English Literature at the University of Bristol, and has published widely on Shakespeare and the early modern period, as well as on nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction and poetry. He has edited works by Kipling, Henry James, and Conrad for Penguin and OUP World's Classics, and is currently editing a volume of the Edinburgh edition of R.L. Stevenson.Peter McDonald is a poet and critic, whose Collected Poems appear from Carcanet Press in 2012. He has published four volumes of criticism, and is currently editing for Longman the Complete Poems of W.B. Yeats. Since 1999, he has been Christopher Tower Student and Tutor in Poetry in the English Language at Christ church, Oxford.