Geoffrey Hill

Geoffrey Hill (b. June 18, 1932) - British poet, Professor of English Literature and Religion, and co-director of the Editorial Institute at Boston University.

Biography

Geoffrey Hill was born in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire in 1932. At the age of six, his family moved to nearby Fairfield, where he attended the local primary school, then grammar school in Bromsgrove. In 1950 he was admitted to Keble College, Oxford to read English, where published his first poems in 1952, at the age of twenty, in a eponymous Fantasy Press volume edited by Donald Davie.

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Worcestershire - 1932 - 1950 - Keble College, Oxford - 1952 - Donald Davie

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After graduating from Keble, Hill embarked upon an academic career, teaching at the University of Leeds from 1954 until 1980. After leaving Leeds, he spent a year at the University of Bristol on a Churchill Scholarship before becoming a teaching Fellow at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he taught from 1981 until 1988. He then moved to the United States, to take up the position he currently holds as University Professor and Professor of Literature and Religion at Boston University. He returns to England frequently.

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University of Leeds - Emmanuel College, Cambridge

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Professor Hill was awarded an honorary DLitt from the University of Leeds in 1988. He is also Honorary Fellow of Keble College, Oxford; Honorary Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge; Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature; and since 1996 a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is married to Alice Goodman.

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