Geoffrey Hill

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Sir Geoffrey William Hill (born June 18, 1932 in Bromsgrove , Worcestershire , † June 30, 2016 in Cambridge , Cambridgeshire ) was a British poet and professor emeritus of English literature and religion at Boston University .

Life

When Hill was six, his family moved to Fairfield , Worcestershire, where he attended school. From 1950 he attended Keble College in Oxford , where he studied English and published his first poems. After graduating, he taught at the University of Leeds from 1954 to 1980 . Since 2010 he has held the chair of Professor of Poetry at Oxford, which was awarded by vote .

Harold Bloom once called Hill the most important (living) poet in the English language. He used several styles. Many of his poems deal with his homeland, also seen historically. Hill has often been referred to as a difficult poet. He himself said that poets could be difficult. He believed that to be "difficult" meant to be democratic, because the desire for the simple was like the desire of a tyrant (in The Paris Review , 2000).

Hill was married to the American Alice Goodman , a librettist of two operas and an Anglican priestess.

Honors

Works

Poems

  • For the Accidents (1958)
  • King Log (1968)
  • Mercian Hymns (1971)
  • Tenebrae (1978)
  • The Mystery of the Charity of Charles Péguy (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)

Translations into German

Essays

  • The Lords of Limit (1984)
  • The Enemy's Country (1991)
  • Style and Faith (2003)

literature

  • Jennifer Kilgore-Caradec La poésie de Geoffrey Hill et la modernité , 2007.
  • Werner von Koppenfels : Hill, Geoffrey . In: Metzler Lexicon of English-Speaking Authors . 631 portraits - from the beginning to the present. Edited by Eberhard Kreutzer and Ansgar Nünning , Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2002, pp. 272f.
  • Jeffrey Wainwright Acceptable Words: Essays on the Poetry of Geoffrey Hill , 2005.
  • Antony Rowland Holocaust Poetry: Awkward Poetics in the Work of Sylvia Plath, Geoffrey Hill, Tony Harrison and Ted Hughes , 2005.
  • Ralph Pordzik History as poetry: Poetry and History in the Work of Geoffrey Hill , 1994.
  • H. Hart The Poetry of Geoffrey Hill , 1986.
  • P. Robinson Geoffrey Hill: Essays on His Work , 1985.
  • David Annwn Inhabited Voices: Myth and History in the Poetry of Geoffrey Hill, Seamus Heaney, and George Mackay , 1984.
  • Elisabeth Mary Knottenbelt Passionate Intelligence: The Poetry of Geoffrey Hill , 1990, ISBN 9051831404
  • Robert Maximilian de Gaynesford 'The Seriousness of Poetry' Essays in Criticism 59, 2009, 1–21.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Geoffrey Hill, 'one of the greatest English poets', dies aged 84
  2. ↑ Katharina Kohm: Where crystals kissed / in the cabinet made of frost and amethyst. Signature magazine, accessed July 27, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Hill, Geoffrey
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hill, Geoffrey William (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British poet and essayist
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Bromsgrove , England
DATE OF DEATH June 30, 2016
Place of death Cambridge