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Geoffrey Hill fue un poeta inglés, profesor de Religión y Literatura Inglesa, y codirector del «Instituto Editorial» en la Universidad de Boston. En 2010 fue elegido «Profesor de Poesía» de la Universidad de Oxford.[2]​

A la edad de seis años, se trasladó con toda su familia a la localidad cercana de Fairfield, parte del condado de Worcestershire, donde acudió a la escuela primaria de Bromsgrove. En 1950 ingresó en el Keble College de Oxford para estudiar inglés, donde publicó sus primeros poemas en 1952, con tan sólo veinte años, en el volumen epónimo de Fantasy Press editado por Donald Davie .

Una vez graduado con honores en Oxford, se embarcó en la carrera académica y docente, enseñando en la Universidad de Leeds desde 1954 hasta 1980. Después de abandonar Leeds, permaneció durante un año académico en la Universidad de Bristol con la beca Churchill antes de ser nombrado miembro de la junta de Gobierno del Emmanuel College de Cambridge, donde enseñó desde 1981 hasta 1988. Más adelante se desplazó a los Estados Unidos, donde fue nombrado profesor de Literatura y Religión en la Universidad de Boston. En el año 2006 regresó a Inglaterra y en estos momentos reside en Cambridge.

El profesor Hill fue nombrado Doctor Honoris Causa por la Universidad de Leeds en 1988. También es asesor honorario del Keble College, Oxford; es Asesor Honorario del Emmanuel College de Cambridge. Académico de la Real Sociedad de Literatura Inglesa; y desde 1996 pertenece a la Academia Americana de las Artes y de las Ciencias. Está casado con Alice Goodman.

Geoffrey Hill es considerado uno de los más significativos poetas de su generación. Al margen de las corrientes de sus contemporáneos, los escritores de la década de 1950 y visiblemente apartado de los escritores de las décadas posteriores, la escritura de Hill se constituye de una gran variedad de estilos, desde la densa y sugerente escritura de King Log o Canaan hasta la sintaxis simplificada de la secuencia "The Pentecost Castle" en "Tenebrae" a los poemas más accesibles de Mercian Hymns", uno de sus libros más conocidos, una serie de treinta poemas en los que se yuxtapone la historia de Offa, gobernante en el siglo VIII del reino Anglosajón de Mercia, con la propia infancia del escritor en la moderna Mercia de West Midlands.

Hill es frecuentemente descrito como un poeta difícil y exigente. Esto es consecuencia tanto de su estilo como de los temas que abarca ya que éste utiliza el gran número de recursos que ofrece la retórica tradicional, asumiendo técnicas de la vanguardia, pero también incorpora términos del lenguaje cotidiano, incluyendo tanto eslóganes políticos, como expresiones propias de los medios de comunicación y tecnicismos.

Son motivos recurrentes en la obra de Hill la presencia de ambigüedad moral y con frecuencia episodios violentos de la historia Británica y Europea reciente, aunque en su obra las descripciones del paisaje tienen la misma intensidad que la historia.

En una entrevista en "Paris Review" , Hill defendió el derecho de los poetas a ser difíciles como forma de resistencia contra las simplificaciones humillantes e interesadas impuestas por los "maestros of world". Wikipedia  

✵ 18. junio 1932 – 30. junio 2016
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Geoffrey Hill: Frases en inglés

“I think men and women who write poetry or write music or paint are finally responsible for what they do. They are entitled to praise for any success they achieve and they should not complain of just criticism.”

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Interview, The Paris Review No. 80, Spring 2000 http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/730/the-art-of-poetry-no-80-geoffrey-hill

“Primroses; salutations; the miry skull
of a half-eaten ram; vicious wonds in earth
opening. What seraphs are afoot.”

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"A Pre-Raphaelite Notebook" 1-3, Tenebrae.
Poetry

“"One cannot lose what one has not possessed."
So much for that abrasive gem.
I can lose what I want. I want you.”

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"The Songbook of Sebastian Arrurruz" II. King Log.
Poetry

“I think art has a right—not an obligation—to be difficult if it wishes. And, since people generally go on from this to talk about elitism versus democracy, I would add that genuinely difficult art is truly democratic.”

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Interview, The Paris Review No. 80, Spring 2000 http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/730/the-art-of-poetry-no-80-geoffrey-hill

“The years will not
answer for what they have done, that much is
certain. There is no shaking them, we
might have foreseen this but refused.”

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Integer Vitae http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse/188/2#/20607403/0
Poetry

“Thus I grind to conclusion.”

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from The Daybooks.
Poetry

“I think intelligence has a kind of range of sense and allows us to contemplate the coexistence of the conceptual aspect of thought and the emotional aspect of thought as ideally wedded, troth-plight, and the circumstances in which this troth-plight can be effected are to be found in the medium of language itself.”

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Interview, The Paris Review No. 80, Spring 2000 http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/730/the-art-of-poetry-no-80-geoffrey-hill

“The idea that you write to express yourself seems to me revolting. The idea that you write to glorify or to make glorious the art of expressiveness seems to me spot on.”

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Interview, Telegraph Review, 2013

“We are difficult. Human beings are difficult. We’re difficult to ourselves, we’re difficult to each other. And we are mysteries to ourselves, we are mysteries to each other.”

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Interview, The Paris Review No. 80, Spring 2000 http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/730/the-art-of-poetry-no-80-geoffrey-hill

“September fattens on vines. Roses
flake from the wall. The smoke
of harmless fires drifts to my eyes.”

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September Song http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/september-song/.
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“To say a poet is to be condemned or inaccessible because she invokes some fields of vision which we have difficulty in grasping; this seems to me a crass kind of bullying.”

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Interview, Telegraph Review, 2013

“For this creating to take place (as it does from time to time) words have to be accepted as heirs of their forebears, as we are of ours. And in each case, what exists is often only a bankrupt inheritance; or the hinterlands of the unspoken.”

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A matter of timing: The Guardian, Saturday 21 September 2002 http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2002/sep/21/featuresreviews.guardianreview28/print

“Charles Péguy, stubborn rancours and mishaps and all, is one of the great souls, one of the great prophetic intelligences of the 20th century. I offer my poem as my homage to the triumph of his 'defeat.”

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Notes on The Mystery of the Charity of Charles Péguy, in Collected Poems Penguin Books 1985
Poetry

“Or say it is Pentecost: the hawthorn-tree,
set with coagulate magnified flowers of may,
blooms in a haze of light; old chalk-pits brim
with seminal verdue from the roots of time.

Landscape is like revelation; it is both
singular crystal and the remotest things.
Cloud-shadows of seasons revisit the earth,
odourless myrrh bourne by the wandering kings.”

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The Mystery of the Charity of Charles Péguy 5.21-29.
Poetry

“I write
to astonish myself”

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The Orchards of Syon XXIII.20-21.
Poetry

“Shakespeare
clearly heard may voices. No secret:
voicing means hearing, at a price a gift”

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The Orchards of Syon II.4-6.
Poetry

“I try to make a distinction between enjoyment and joy. You are only prepared to enjoy what you already have a taste for; wheras joy is shocking and surprising.”

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Interview, Telegraph Review, 2013

“The idea that the intellect is somehow alien to sensuousness, or vice versa, is one that I have never been able to connect with. I can accept that it is a prevalent belief, but it seems to me, nonetheless, a false notion.”

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Interview, The Paris Review No. 80, Spring 2000 http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/730/the-art-of-poetry-no-80-geoffrey-hill

“An achieved poem is always beautiful in its own way, though such a way will many times strike people as harsh and repellent.”

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A matter of timing: The Guardian, Saturday 21 September 2002 http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2002/sep/21/featuresreviews.guardianreview28/print

“I contrast hierarchy with hegemony, the juxtaposition of the real & surreal”

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Interview with Sameer Rahim, 'Poetry as History', Telegraph Review, 14 December 2013.
Interview, Telegraph Review, 2013

“I have learned one thing: not to look down
Too much upon the damned.”

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Ovid in the Third Reich
Poetry

“It is to be hoped—I mean, I hope—that the poetry I have been writing since 1992 squares up to, takes the measure of, weighs up, the violent evasions and stock affronts of the oligarchy of fraud. I don't, even so, write poems to be polemical; I write to create a being of beautiful energy.”

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A matter of timing: The Guardian, Saturday 21 September 2002 http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2002/sep/21/featuresreviews.guardianreview28/print

“Self-astonishment is achieved when, by some process I can't fathom, common words are moved, or move themselves, into clusters of meaning so intense that they seem to stand up from the page, three-dimensional almost.”

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A matter of timing: The Guardian, Saturday 21 September 2002 http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2002/sep/21/featuresreviews.guardianreview28/print