Geoffrey Hill and his Contexts

Piers Pennington is completing a doctoral thesis on modern poetry at Corpus Christi College, Oxford.Matthew Sperling is Fellow by Special Election in Modern English Literature at Keble College, Oxford. He is at work on a monograph on Geoffrey Hill, etymological thinking and the history of linguistic thought, and has published essays on the work of Roy Fisher and J.H. Prynne.

• Contents: Steven Matthews: Hill’s Uncollected Oxford Poems – Piers Pennington: The Manuscripts and Composition of ‘Genesis’ – Charles Lock: Beside the Point: A Diligence of Accidentals – Kathryn Murphy: Hill’s Conversions – Michael Molan: Milton and Eliot in the Work of Geoffrey Hill – Matthew Sperling: Hill and Nineteenth-Century Linguistic Thought – Marcus Waithe: Hill, Ruskin, and Intrinsic Value – Sheridan Burnside: The ‘Tenebrae’ Poems of Paul Celan and Geoffrey Hill – Matthew Paskins: Hill and Gillian Rose – Hugh Haughton: ‘Music’s Invocation’: Music and History in Geoffrey Hill – Kenneth Haynes: ‘Perplexed Persistence’: The Criticism of Geoffrey Hill – Geoffrey Hill: from Odi Barbare, XXI-XXII.