Abstract
Geoffrey Hill, born in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, was educated at the High School there and at Keble College, Oxford. He taught in the School of English at Leeds University (Professor, 1976–80) and has been a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, since 1981. His books of verse include For the Unfallen (the first, 1959), King Log (1968) and Tenebrae (1978). Mercian Hymns (1971) is a collection of prose poems in praise of Offa, the eighth-century Anglo-Saxon King of Mercia. The Mystery of the Charity of Charles Péguy (1983) is a long poem on the life of the French Catholic poet and mystic. Geoffrey Hill’s verse is erudite and tough; his themes are often historical and religious.
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