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Geoffrey Hill

(1932–2016) Poet United Kingdom

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Geoffrey Hill was a poet from the United Kingdom, best known for The Aspirate, Or, the Use of the Letter 'h' in English, Latin, Greek and Gaelic.

Quick Facts About Geoffrey Hill

Born
June 18, 1932
Died
June 30, 2016
Nationality
United Kingdom
Profession
Poet
Notable works
The Aspirate, Or, the Use of the Letter 'h' in English, Latin, Greek and Gaelic
Spouse
Alice Goodman

About Geoffrey Hill

Sir Geoffrey William Hill, FRSL 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 , Hill is recognised as one of the principal contributors to poetry and criticism in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Hawthornden Prize Horst Bienek Award for Poetry Knight Bachelor Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize Cholmondeley Award Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize Eric Gregory Award Russell Loines Award for Poetry
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Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism Heinemann Award Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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