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Birth Name:

Geoffrey Hill

Male

Birth Date:

Sat, Jun 18, 1932

Time of Birth:

Unknown (using Noon)

Place of Birth:

Bromsgrove, England, United Kingdom

Age:

92

Zodiac Sign:

Gemini

Astrology Data:

Sun

26°

Gem

58'

About Geoffrey Hill

Sir Geoffrey William Hill, FRSL (18 June 1932 – 30 June 2016) was an English poet, professor emeritus of English literature and religion, and former co-director of the Editorial Institute, at Boston University. Hill has been considered to be among the most distinguished poets of his generation and was called the "greatest living poet in the English language." From 2010 to 2015 he held the position of Professor of Poetry in the University of Oxford. Following his receiving the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism in 2009 for his Collected Critical Writings, and the publication of Broken Hierarchies (Poems 1952–2012), Hill is recognised as one of the principal contributors to poetry and criticism in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Link to Wikipedia biography

External Links:

• Oxford Professor of Poetry Faculty Page featuring Hill's Lectures

• Listen to Hill reading 'The Storm' on YouTube

• Carl Phillips (Spring 2000). "Geoffrey Hill, The Art of Poetry No. 80". The Paris Review. Spring 2000 (154).

• "Geoffrey Hill: Unparalleled Atonement" Review Selected Poems in The Critical Flame.

• Profile at Poets.org

• Profile and poems at Poetry Foundation

• Guardian profile of Hill, celebrating his 70th birthday

• BBC 18 June 2010 "Geoffrey Hill named Oxford poetry professor"

• Hill on the 'beautiful energy' of his poetry

• 'Subduing the reader' by Laurie Smith in Magma, No. 23, Summer 2002

• 'Language and Grace', review of The Orchards of Syon in the Oxonian Review

• 'The Violent Bear it Away' Audio recording of a lecture on English translations of the Bible given at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.

• Archival material at Leeds University Library

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Astrological aspects and planetary data / tags for Geoffrey Hill: Sun 26 Gemini, Moon 26 Sagittarius, Mercury 3 Cancer, Venus 13 Cancer, Mars 27 Taurus, Jupiter 19 Leo, Saturn 3 Aquarius, Uranus 22 Aries, Neptune 5 Virgo, Pluto 21 Cancer, Mercury Quincunx Saturn, Sun Conjunct Mercury, Mercury Sextile Neptune, Sun Semi Sextile Mars, Mercury Semi Square Jupiter, Venus Semi Square Mars, Jupiter Trine Uranus, Jupiter Semi Sextile Pluto, Saturn Quincunx Neptune, Uranus Sesquiquadrate Neptune, Uranus Square Pluto, Neptune Semi Square Pluto

Categories related to Geoffrey Hill: 2016 deaths, June 18 births, Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Oxford, Cambridge, 1932 births, People from Bromsgrove, Formalist poets, Knights Bachelor, English male poets, Alumni of Keble College, Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature, Academics of the University of Leeds, Fellows of Keble College, 20th-century English poets, 21st-century English poets, Oxford Professors of Poetry, People from Worcestershire, Fellows of Emmanuel College, 20th-century English male writers, 21st-century English male writers