Product Description: A new collection of poetry from Oxford Professor of Poetry, Geoffrey Hill, Clavics is intended as a tribute to early seventeenth-century poetry and music. It takes the form of an elegiac sequence for William Lawes, the Royalist musician killed at the Battle of Chester...read more

Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: Geoffrey Hill’s latest collection takes its title from a pamphlet by Milton of 1659 that attacks the concept of a state church as well as corruption in church governance. As Milton figures prominently here, so too must the Lord Protector, Cromwell, addressed in a memorable sonnet sequence...read more

Product Description: Praise for Geoffrey Hill’s newest collection of poems:“Without Title, his new collection, combines the force and freedom of Hill's narrative verse with a renewed faith in his masterly talents for form and wordplay. The result is alarmingly good; a collection of lyrics on the difficulties of ageing, the problems of belief and the vagaries of language bracketing a sequence of pindarics in which Hill, ostensibly responding to thoughts of the Italian poet Cesare Pavese, meditates at length on both their lives and considers the place of a poet in the world...read more

Product Description: Water: an essential element that sustains our world and a powerful metaphor that has been used by artists and writers as a way of expressing emotion for centuries. Fusing images and poems that share water as a common theme, "The Water's Edge" explores the complexities of expression through a series of screenprints by the acclaimed artist Ardyn Halter...read more

Seven essays on the moral life of literature and the moral burden of the poet seek to rescue key literary works from misinterpretation, in a collection that covers such texts as the Oxford English Dictionary, Tyndale's Bible, and poems by Henry Vaughan and T.S. Eliot. 15,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Product Description: With Daumier as his muse, Geoffrey Hill, "the best poet we have, assaults the emptiness of public discourse to which we have become accustomed."-- Evening Standard. With our minds and ears fouled by degraded public speech--by media hype, insipid sermons, hollow political rhetoric, and the ritual misuse of words--how do we begin to think and speak honestly? At a time when our common language has been made false and ugly, how does the artist find words to communicate truth and beauty? These are the questions that Geoffrey Hill addresses in Speech! Speech!, a caustic, tragicomic tour de force that the London Guardian, naming it the poetry book of the year, called "magisterial--a classic of English poetry...read more

A stunning volume of poetry, which continues the remarkable series that began with Canaan, is a Dantean eclogue that examines the natural world and provides insight into Paradise, presenting a modern devotional poem.

Product Description: A new book-length poem from "the strongest British poet now alive." -Harold Bloom. Excruciatingly comic, Speech! Speech! is also that rarest of things: a tour de force that is tragic. As imperious as the King, forever issuing commands, and as perilously ingenious in rejoinder as the Fool, the voices of Geoffrey Hill vie to outjest each other-outrage each other-yet also to soothe implacable injuries...read more

A book-length poem describes the author's slow coming-to-terms with the brutality, political idiocy, and ecclesiastic blindness of the twentieth century, and his own failings.

Poems deal with such themes as the British government, life and death, virtues, and war

Product Description: Geoffrey Hill is University Professor at Boston University. He holds an honorary D. Litt. from the University of Leeds and is an Honorary Fellow of both Keble College, Oxford and Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Amongst many other recognitions of his work as a poet, he has received the Hawthornden Prize and the Whitbread Award...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This volume brings together poems from four decades of Geoffrey Hill's work. "If one had now to choose a living poet in English whom Boris Pasternak would recognize, whom George Seferis and T. S. Eliot would take seriously, Geoffrey Hill is the most obvious choice" (Peter Levi)...read more

Analyzes seventeen films, ranging from 'Its a Wonderful Life' to 'Blue Velvet,' in a study of film as mythology

Poems deal with history, religion, conscience, art, India, marriage, music, mortality, the imagination, parenthood, and innocence

A long poem considers the life of French poet, Charles Peguy, who was killed during World War I

Nine essays on such topics as Robert Southwell, Ben Jonson, Jonathan Swift, and T.H. Green probe the meaning, form, and language of poetry

Product Description: This is the story of a minister driven by faith to risk the death of his wife and child. "Brand" pits a man of vision against the forces of ignorance and venality.