Famously difficult author acclaimed by former poet laureate Andrew Motion as a writer ‘of immense gifts and originality and authenticity’
Geoffrey Hill, a poet regularly hailed as the greatest in the English language, died suddenly on Thursday evening at the age of 84.
Hill’s wife, the librettist Alice Goodman, announced his death on Twitter. “Please pray for the repose of the soul of my husband, Geoffrey Hill, who died yesterday evening, suddenly, and without pain or dread,” she wrote. Emmanuel College in Cambridge, where Hill was an honorary fellow, confirmed the news.
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