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Geoffrey Hilll, Peter Florence,Marking Time, Food and Farming Day
Geoffrey Hilll, Peter Florence,Marking Time, Food and Farming Day
Sad news yesterday of the death of the wonderful Lyric poet Geoffrey Hill. When I was at Emma in the dawn of the world, Geoffrey Hill was a magnificent brooding presence around the college. He also had a connection with Keble where he was an undergraduate, which he celebrated after being made the Oxford Poetry Professor. Thus he was a poet always popular amongst the Aardvarkians, where university loyalties are ever bifurcated.
One of the poems from his mid-career remains a favourite of mine. 'Ovid in the Third Reich' -

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