“To say a poet is to be condemned or inaccessible because she invokes some fields of vision which we have difficulty in grasping; this seems to me a crass kind of bullying.”

— Geoffrey Hill

Interview, Telegraph Review, 2013

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English poet and professor 1932–2016

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