John Lyon is Reader in English Literature at the University of Bristol, and has published widely on Shakespeare and the early modern period, as well as on nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction and poetry. He has edited works by Kipling, Henry James, and Conrad for Penguin and OUP World's Classics, and is currently editing a volume of the Edinburgh edition of R.L. Stevenson.Peter McDonald is a poet and critic, whose Collected Poems appear from Carcanet Press in 2012. He has published four volumes of criticism, and is currently editing for Longman the Complete Poems of W.B. Yeats. Since 1999, he has been Christopher Tower Student and Tutor in Poetry in the English Language at Christ church, Oxford.

This volume contributes a valuable overview of Hill's career ... Highly recommended.

• Acknowledgements ; Abbreviations ; Introduction ; Hill's Unrelenting, Unreconciling Mind ; Recusant Hill ; Geoffrey Hill's Quartet ; On Being 'A Man of the World': Geoffrey Hill and Physicality ; The Impossibility of Death ; Geoffrey Hill's Eye Troubles ; Geoffrey Hill and Confession ; 'But to my Task': Work, Truth, and Metre in Later Hill ; A Bibliography of Geoffrey Hill

John Lyon is Reader in English Literature at the University of Bristol, and has published widely on Shakespeare and the early modern period, as well as on nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction and poetry. He has edited works by Kipling, Henry James, and Conrad for Penguin and OUP World's Classics, and is currently editing a volume of the Edinburgh edition of R.L. Stevenson.Peter McDonald is a poet and critic, whose Collected Poems appear from Carcanet Press in 2012. He has published four volumes of criticism, and is currently editing for Longman the Complete Poems of W.B. Yeats. Since 1999, he has been Christopher Tower Student and Tutor in Poetry in the English Language at Christ church, Oxford.

This volume contributes a valuable overview of Hill's career ... Highly recommended.

• Acknowledgements ; Abbreviations ; Introduction ; Hill's Unrelenting, Unreconciling Mind ; Recusant Hill ; Geoffrey Hill's Quartet ; On Being 'A Man of the World': Geoffrey Hill and Physicality ; The Impossibility of Death ; Geoffrey Hill's Eye Troubles ; Geoffrey Hill and Confession ; 'But to my Task': Work, Truth, and Metre in Later Hill ; A Bibliography of Geoffrey Hill