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On Seeing the Wind at Hope Mansell
Source: Poetry (May 2006).
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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
Poem Categorization
SUBJECT Landscapes & Pastorals, Nature, Weather
POET’S REGION England
Poetic Terms Alliteration, Imagery, Free Verse, Assonance, Consonance
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