A.N. Wilson

A.N. Wilson is an author and former literary editor of The Spectator.

A phoenix rising from European ashes

It is impossible in a short space to convey not merely how good, but how important Geoffrey Hill’s writing is. In his mystic journey to the Goldengrove of his Worcestershire childhood this latter-day Blakean reopens problems which philosophy had long ago abandoned as intractable and which politics in its corruption had discarded. If I had