Hill’s A Treatise of Civil Power is “a measured, brilliant book”

“A pinch-mouthed, grave-digger’s poetry,” which remains “rich and allusive,” with “passages of stunning beauty.” This is how poet and critic William Logan describes Geoffrey Hill’s recent collection, A Treatise of Civil Power, in a front-page review for the New York Times Book Review. Logan goes on to say, “English has

Continue reading…