Geoffrey Hill Oxford Lecture: 'I know thee not, old man, fall to thy prayers'

Delivered at Oxford 05/05/2015
This was the final lecture Hill delivered as Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford.

[@AnP865]

Jackson do you remember which lecture it is where GH describes Mad Meg / Dulle Gret with her eyes rolled back etc?

[@jacksonpowers]

No. Sorry

[@cola3173]

@AnP865 all I remember is that it’s either the opening or ending of the lectures it’s part of. Same one he mentions Angel with Horns and Richard II

[@johnmartin2813]

Ezra Pound said the same thing, but much more economically: 'Dichtung = condensare.

[@AnP865]

Not necessarily gezer