Name: Geoffrey Hill Retrospective Reading by Daniel Westover
Duration: 50 min
Description: On 1 February, 2006, Geoffrey Hill gave a retrospective reading in the Sheldonian Theatre at Oxford University. [You can read about the event here: https://newcriterion.com/issues/2006/4/an-austere-opulence.] I am uploading the audio of this reading for my students, for educational purposes only.

On 1 February, 2006, Geoffrey Hill gave a retrospective reading in the Sheldonian Theatre at Oxford University. [You can read about the event here: https://newcriterion.com/issues/2006/4/an-austere-opulence.] I am uploading the audio of this reading for my students, for educational purposes only.

Geoffrey Hill Retrospective Reading

Professor of English and Chair of Literature and Language at East Tennessee State University. Books include The Fire that Breaks: Gerard Manley Hopkins’s Poetic Legacies (2020), The World Is Charged: Poetic Engagements with Gerard Manley Hopkins (2016), and R.S. Thomas: A Stylistic Biography (2011).