Picture of a Nativity
Geoffrey Hill, “Picture of a Nativity” from New and Collected Poems, 1952-1992. Copyright © 1994 by Geoffrey Hill. Used with the permission of Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Poet Geoffrey Hill b. 1932
POET’S REGION England
Subjects Birth & Birthdays, Painting & Sculpture, Living, Religion, Arts & Sciences, Christianity
Holidays Christmas
Poetic Terms Rhymed Stanza, Ekphrasis
Biography
Geoffrey Hill was born in Worcestershire, England in 1932. From a working-class family, Hill attended Oxford where his work was first published by the poet Donald Hall. These poems later collected in For the Unfallen: Poems 1952-1958 (1959), marked an astonishing debut. In dense poems of gnarled syntax and astonishing rhetorical power, Hill planted the seeds of style and concern that he has continued to cultivate over his long . . .
Poems by Geoffrey Hill
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SUBJECT Birth & Birthdays, Painting & Sculpture, Living, Religion, Arts & Sciences, Christianity
POET’S REGION England
Poetic Terms Rhymed Stanza, Ekphrasis
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