Geoffrey Hill Essays on his Later Work

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 late writings by youngerscholars, 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 be invaluable to allthose seeking to read more widely in the work of this fascinating and exceptional figure.

Jolui Lyon is Reader in English, University of Bristol. Peter McMonald is Christopher Tower Student and Tutor in Poetry in the English Language, Christ Church, Oxford.