Mercian Hymns

Sir Geoffrey Hill (1932–2016) was an acclaimed English poet renowned for his dense, allusive style exploring history, religion, and morality in works such as For the Unfallen (1959), King Log (1968), Mercian Hymns (1971), Tenebrae (1978), and Broken Hierarchies (2013). His achievements include the Whitbread Poetry Prize, Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism, Oxford Professor of Poetry (2010–2015), and a knighthood in 2012, establishing him as one of the foremost poets of the 20th and 21st centuries.