biography
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Hill, Geoffrey (William)
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| lived:
| (1932– )
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| biography:
| Poet, born in Bromsgrove, Hereford and Worcester, WC England, UK. He studied at Oxford, taught at the universities of Leeds (1954–80) and Cambridge (1981–8), and became professor at Boston, MA, in 1988. His first volume For the Unfallen (1959) introduced a serious and astringent voice, which has commanded increasing authority with King Log (1968), Mercian Hymns (1971), and Tenebrae (1978). His religious preoccupation is fully revealed in The Mystery of the Charity of Charles Péguy (1983), and later works include New and Collected Poems 1952–1992 (1994), Canaan (1996), and The Triumph of Love (1998). Among his critical works is Illuminating the Shadows: Mythic Powers of Film (1992). |
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