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Geoffrey Hill

Also known as Sir Geoffrey William Hill

English poet (1932–2016)

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Works: 31

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Collected Critical Writings
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Somewhere Is Such a Kingdom
Hymnes de Mercie
Peer Gynt and Brand

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Type: Person
Country: AT
Active from: 1940-07-27

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“We are difficult. Human beings are difficult. We’re difficult to ourselves, we’re difficult to each other. And we are mysteries to ourselves, we are mysteries to each other.”

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1932 births 2016 deaths 20th-century English male writers 20th-century English poets 21st-century English male writers 21st-century English poets Academics of the University of Leeds Alumni of Keble College, Oxford English male poets Fellows of Emmanuel College, Cambridge Fellows of Keble College, Oxford Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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“I think art has a right—not an obligation—to be difficult if it wishes. And, since people generally go on from this to talk about elitism versus democracy, I would add that genuinely difficult art is truly democratic.”

“The idea that the intellect is somehow alien to sensuousness, or vice versa, is one that I have never been able to connect with. I can accept that it is a prevalent belief, but it seems to me, nonetheless, a false notion.”

“I think intelligence has a kind of range of sense and allows us to contemplate the coexistence of the conceptual aspect of thought and the emotional aspect of thought as ideally wedded, troth-plight, and the circumstances in which this troth-plight can be effected are to be found in the medium of language itself.”

“I think men and women who write poetry or write music or paint are finally responsible for what they do. They are entitled to praise for any success they achieve and they should not complain of just criticism.”

“Self-astonishment is achieved when, by some process I can't fathom, common words are moved, or move themselves, into clusters of meaning so intense that they seem to stand up from the page, three-dimensional almost.”

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Christian poetry

William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk

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Christopher Ricks

Assassination of Jean Jaurès

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

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Horst Bienek Award for Poetry

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Battle of Towton

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