- This article is about the poet Geoffrey Hill. For the British aeronautical engineer and professor see Geoffrey T. R. Hill. For the English cricketer see Geoffrey Hill (cricketer).
Sir Geoffrey William Hill,
FRSL (born 18 June 1932) is an English poet, professor emeritus of English literature and religion, and former co-director of the
Editorial Institute, at
Boston University. Hill has been considered to be among the most distinguished poets of his generation and has been called the "greatest living poet in the English language". From 2010 to 2015 he held the position of
Professor of Poetry in the
University of Oxford. Following his receiving the
Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism in 2009 for his
Collected Critical Writings, and the publication of
Broken Hierarchies (Poems 1952–2012), Hill is recognised as one of the principal contributors to poetry in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.