Geoffrey Hill's construction and deconstruction

The Philadelphia Inquirer reviews the Selected Poems of Geoffrey Hill, just out from Yale:

Welcome to the wonderfully plangent yet stately, formal world of Geoffrey Hill's Selected Poems. Spanning five-plus decades, its contents comprise a generous compendium of definitive verse culled from a dozen now-classic volumes, including For the Unfallen (1958), Mercian Hymns (1971), Tenebrae (1978), and The Mystery of the Charity of Charles Péguy (1983). Also here are poems from Canaan (1997), The Triumph of Love (1998) and Without Title (2006). A Treatise of Civil Power (2005)? Nope. No matter. Despite the curious omission of that late-life bedazzler, the collection's wide-ranging offerings showcase the formidable skills and ever-evolving imaginative strengths of one of the planet's preeminent purists . . .