Geoffrey Hill's Poetic Persona
- Emily Bilman
- Aug 9, 2016
- 1 min read
I am re-reading Geoffrey Hill's poems to write an essay for a university journal
of poetics on the development of his poetic persona. I have been listening to
the recording of his reading at Oxford University in 2006 from all his books.
His strong reading voice is characterised by his idiosyncratic pitch and stress based on his breath. His stresses remind us of Dylan Thomas' but they are
less emphatic and more discreet. As he said himself: "I take my pitch catches
the emphasis /more by breathing than contagion."
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