Geoffrey Hill in The Economist: "Poems should be beautiful"

Geoffrey Hill is featured in a recent video interview with The Economist. He discusses his existential poetry, agrees with critics who accuse his work of lacking a coherent point of view ("my poems are all about failing to get something," he says), talks anarchical plutocracy, and lays down a few zen koans, like this one: "I've never begun a poem knowing how it will end or ended a poem knowing how it will begin."

Well worth a viewing! Check it out.