Geoffrey Hill

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Geoffrey Hill


Born
in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, The United Kingdom
June 18, 1932

Died
June 30, 2016

Genre
Poetry, Essays


Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.

Sir Geoffrey William Hill was an English poet and professor emeritus of English literature and religion.

Combine Editions

Average rating: 4.07 · 1,572 ratings · 180 reviews · 84 distinct works • Similar authors
Selected Poems of Geoffrey ...
4.03 avg rating — 163 ratings — published 2006 — 6 editions
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Mercian Hymns
4.17 avg rating — 152 ratings — published 1971 — 4 editions
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The Triumph Of Love
4.04 avg rating — 104 ratings — published 1998 — 8 editions
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Canaan: Poetry of Moral Urg...
4.09 avg rating — 82 ratings — published 1997 — 11 editions
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New and Collected Poems, 19...
4.16 avg rating — 73 ratings — published 1994 — 8 editions
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Broken Hierarchies: Poems 1...
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Tenebrae
4.15 avg rating — 62 ratings — published 1978 — 7 editions
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King Log
4.10 avg rating — 61 ratings — published 1968 — 3 editions
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Collected Poems
4.15 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 1985 — 7 editions
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Speech! Speech! Poems
3.84 avg rating — 61 ratings — published 2000 — 6 editions
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“If we meet each other in hell, it's not hell.”
― Geoffrey Hill, Broken Hierarchies: Poems 1952-2012
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“Finally coming to terms with Fathers Day. I blow as a Dad. I get it. No, I'm not an evil, abusive Father, it's just that while all my intentions and thoughts have been out of love for my kids, my actions and behaviour never measured up.”
― Geoffrey Hill
tags: fatherhood
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“Evil is not good's absence but gravity's
everlasting bedrock and its fatal chains
inert, violent, the suffrage of our days.”
― Geoffrey Hill, Canaan: Poetry of Moral Urgency and Historical Witness―Suffering, Martyrdom, and the Millennium
tags: poetry
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