Clavics

Geoffrey Hill was elected the Oxford Professor of Poetry in 2010. He was knighted for services to literature in 2012.

"Clavics is wonderful for its sense of play in language and in time: words collapsing into other words, times collapsing into other times. Such play amounts at its best to what Hill himself calls 'wit let tipple into Grace'." WORLD LITERATURE TODAY "Snippets of Latin and strings of allusion remind us of how much most contemporary readers do not know, or will forget; complexities of pattern and dizzying shifts of tone will keep Hill's considerable, and considerably learned, following alertly delighted." PUBLISHERS WEEKLY