The Uncommon Tongue

In the analysis of Hills poetry and critical ideas, Vincent Sherry illuminates Hills often obscure and oblique language, drawing connections between the rich verbal textures of the verse and the poets recurring concerns as a critic. The author focuses on Hills work in the context of postwar British literature and relates it to American as well as British extensions of literary modernism. The result is an engaging and far-ranging study of one of Englands most contemporary poets.