Geoffrey Hill

Geoffrey Hill was an English poet and literary critic whose densely allusive work examined history, theology, morality, and political violence. His major collections include *Mercian Hymns*, *The Triumph of Love*, and *Broken Hierarchies: Poems 1952–2012*, while his critical writing was collected in *The Lords of Limit* and *Collected Critical Writings*. Hill also taught at Leeds, Cambridge, and Boston University, and served as Oxford’s Professor of Poetry from 2010 to 2015.