# Geoffrey Hill and the Ends of Poetry, Vol. 1

By **Tom Docherty**

- ISBN-13: 9781526198266
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 296
- Published: 23 Jun 2026

## About this book

The idea of the end is an essential motivic force in the poetry of Geoffrey Hill (1932–2016). This book shows that Hill’s poems are characteristically ‘end-directed’. They tend towards consummations of all kinds: from the marriages of meanings in puns, or of words in repeating figures and rhymes, to syntactical and for

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