
The Lord sent the Children of Israel into Canaan, the enemy's country, to topple the idols worshiped there. Instead they settled among the heathen, forgot their Lord, and made themselves slaves to earthly pleasures. For Geoffrey Hill, England, indeed all"this common Europe" has...

Here is public poetry of uncommon moral urgency: it bears witness to the sufferings of the innocent at the hands of history and to the martyrdom of those who have dared look history in the eye. "Rich, quarrelsome...handsome and brutish...Hill's poetry is the major achievement...
