News at Eleven: Geoffrey Hill, Oxford's Professor of Poetry,

has received a knighthood for services to literature in the New Year's Honours List.

Professor Hill, who has been described as the "greatest living poet writing in the English language,' has produced more than fifteen volumes of celebrated poetry, including the acclaimed King Log and Speech! Speech!, in a career spanning over fifty years. Hill has also written four volumes of influential literary criticism.

from Cherwell: Oxford Professor of Poetry knighted
then openDemocracy: The national question and the greatest living English poet

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