Poet Geoffrey Hill’s Copy - Eight Victorian Poets

First Edition inscribed to front flyleaf, ‘Geoffrey Hill York 1968’. Publisher’s blue cloth boards in near very good condition, very slightly bumped to the corners and spine top and tail; endpapers and text block age toned as expected; unmarked; sound and square. Original clipped dust jacket near good; nicked to spine top and bumped to corners; spine panel discoloured; a crayon scribble to front but structurally very sound. 151 pp. 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 who divided opinion sharply between passionate admirers, for whom his now substantial oeuvre represents one of the great poetic achievements of the last hundred years, and those who find his ideas unsympathetic.