About the Author

Geoffrey Hill was born in 1932, in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire. He was the author of five books of poetry, two volumes of literary criticism, and a stage version of Isben's poetic drama Brand. He taught in the University Professors Program at Boston University.

Reviews

"Art of the highest lyric intensity . . . it stands with the work of Mandelstam and Montale." Boston Globe "Among our finest poets, Geoffrey Hill is at present the most European - in his Latinity, in his dramatization of the Christian condition, in his political intensity." -- George Steiner --

"Art of the highest lyric intensity . . . it stands with the work of Mandelstam and Montale." Boston Globe "Among our finest poets, Geoffrey Hill is at present the most European - in his Latinity, in his dramatization of the Christian condition, in his political intensity." -- George Steiner --