TWO GIFTS FROM GEOFFREY HILL - The Personal Principle Studies in Modern Poetry; William Grimshaw, Incumbent of Haworth

D S Savage; R Spence Hardy [Geoffrey Hill]

Two thank you gifts presented by the poet Geoffrey Hill, after a spell in hospital, to a close friend and colleague in the School of English at L… Read more

Published in 1930 by Cambridge at the University Press.

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Two thank you gifts presented by the poet Geoffrey Hill, after a spell in hospital, to a close friend and colleague in the School of English at Leeds University.

D S Savage’s The Personal Principle has a note laid in on Hill’s printed notecard thanking ‘Alastair and Jennifer’ for ‘your kindness during my time in hospital’ and offering to Jennifer ‘with her interest in Yorkshire history’ the biography of William Grimshaw. This volume has a further inscription ‘from Geoffrey Hill....’ on the front flyleaf; it retains is original red embossed cloth publisher’s binding - a very good copy. To ‘Alastair’, Hill offers ‘D.S.Savage.. it has a chapter on Hart Crane...’ this is a first edition in chipped jacket, perhaps gifted from Hill’s personal library.

PROVENANCE: From the collection of a retired University of Leeds academic.

Widely admired by fellow poets, by critics and by serious readers of poetry, Geoffrey Hill was a poet with many and passionate admirers, for whom his now substantial oeuvre represents one of the great poetic achievements of the last hundred years. He spent three decades living and working in Leeds where he made many close friendships before departing for Cambridge.

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Date published 1930

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