Selected Poems
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Geoffrey Hill
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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.”
“The finest British poet of our time.”—John Hollander
“The most important and original body of poetry since Yeats.”—Literary Imagination
“England's best hope for the Nobel Prize.”—Spectator
“There is no one alive writing in our language about deeper or more important matters, no one saying such interesting things. . . . The work of Hill is a phoenix rising from European ashes.”—A. N. Wilson, Spectator
“Hill’s lines are the contours of an ancestral landscape. They sculpt the culture in which his work is so deeply embedded. This is what makes him England’s most important living poet.”—Rachel Campbell-Johnston, The Times
“Hill is without question the strongest British poet currently writing, and his Selected Poems is an import of significance for American readers.”
—The New Republic
Publication Date: March 31, 2009
