Geoffrey Hill was elected the Oxford Professor of Poetry in 2010. He previously taught at Leeds, Cambridge, and Boston University, Massachusetts. His twelfth collection of poems, A Treatise of Civil Power, appeared in 2007, following on Scenes from Comus (2005) and Without Title (2006). His Collected Critical Writings (Oxford University Press, 2008) won the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism. Geoffrey Hill's Collected Critical Writings (Oxford University Press, 2008) won the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism. His other awards include: Eric Gregory Award, the Hawthornden Prize, the Faber Memorial Prize, the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize, the Russell Loines Award of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, the Kahn Award for Canaan, the T.S. Eliot Award for Creative Writing presented by the Ingersoll Foundation, the Heinemann Book Award for The Triumph of Love.
'A poet at once urgent and timeless' - Christopher Ricks; 'Among our finest poets...the most European.' - George Steiner; 'It is impossible in a short space to convey not merely how good, but how important Hill's writing is - There is no one alive writing in our language about deeper or more important matters, no one saying such interesting things' A. N. Wilson, The Spectator; 'Hill has been writing his incomparable poetry for over fifty years now - each new book of his has been a fresh, and sometimes unexpected, triumph. The combination of immaculate poetic skill with intense originality is always rare, and never more so than in our diminished age' Eric Ormsby, The New Criterion; 'The most important and original body of poetry since Yeats' Peter McDonald, Literary Imagination; 'Hill's poetry is the major achievement of late-twentieth-century verse' William Logan; 'Geoffrey Hill is the greatest living English poet' Michael Dirda, Washington Post; 'If one had now to choose a living poet in English whom Boris Pasternak would recognize, whom George Seferis and T. S. Eliot would take seriously, Geoffrey Hill is the most obvious choice' Peter Levi.
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