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Wreaths
“Wreath” from New and Collected Poems: 1952–1992 by Geoffrey Hill. © 1994 by Geoffrey Hill. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
Source: Poetry (April 2012).
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 Living, Death, The Body, Time & Brevity, Nature, Seas, Rivers, & Streams
POET’S REGION England
Poetic Terms Free Verse, Series/Sequence
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