Geoffrey Hill greatest living English poet in an interview

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[@ishmaelhope2482]

"An exquisite sense of the individuality breaking out of the formula." A lyrical bon mot. Breaking up meter, stressing in seemingly awkward parts to find richer realms of "individuality", or musicality. Comedy is often unexpected juxtapositions delivered in an expected rhythm. Perhaps the greater comedians, and the greater poets, also break up the rhythms with an "exquisite sense."

[@saudbleebl5726]

Really, he is great poet

[@MrUndersolo]

I was an English Literature major...and I never heard of him. Ken Dodd, Shakespeare and rap? Very intrigued... 🤔 📖

[@JHarder1000]

I love the comments about how dry and pompuous he is, and here is praising Comedians and pointing out how the Sheakespeares of The Tentieth century will learn from Rap.

[@borjon23]

Some other sublime lyricism from Jewel: I don't know how to do anything | I am trying to move mountains with words But I am an ant | I scribble| I drool | I move like a worm Jewel: a blonde hurricane flame of a drooling ant who moves like a worm. Strip Geoffrey Hill of his position now and let Jewel round out his lecture series at Keble!

[@zzzxx1474]

Music at 4:00 ?

[@olebrandona]

Britten's Cello Symphony I think?

[@robertthiesen2687]

I'm trying to understand his poetry. This is not instilling confidence.

[@luba1441]

cringing at the interviewer

[@drahcirnevarc9152]

Why? I thought he did a perfectly decent job of bringing the poet out of himself.

[@borjon23]

Be kind. Not all can reach the poetry mastery of a Jewel or a Tori Amos. Hahaha.

[@Cassandra702]

he is great but too bad about the nauseating voice-over. Next time just get Robin Leech and get it over with

[@jameswilliamhall6740]

Holy Christ, LOOSEN DA FUCK UP.

[@rasputinandreievich7159]

This guy is the embodiment of dry, floaty ego. He's praised as this incredible genius but all I get from him is an air of self-importance which only moves about the ear as a slight irritant.

[@thesupper9984]

+Rasputin Andreievich That speaks more of you than it does him.

[@kelman727]

+tristram shandy That evasive response tells us you have no real answer.

[@terrybogard8734]

He comes across as a very humble man to me, an artist content with just laboring away at his work day after day. If it's his comment about rap that has you so upset, he said he's ignorant on the subject and that the next great poet would surely be influenced by it. That's quite high praise of it as an art form, not a pretentious diss. And he loves popular comedians. I don't understand at all where your sense of his self-importance is coming from.

[@JHarder1000]

You are aspecial kind of stupid.

[@kelman727]

Never liked him, sorry he's snuffed it.

[@trythinking8967]

Solemn, dry as dust intellectual.

[@warrenstutely1093]

Read the verse. Magnificent