Charles Péguy, stubborn rancours and mishaps and all, is on… - Geoffrey Hill

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Charles Péguy, stubborn rancours and mishaps and all, is one of the great souls, one of the great prophetic intelligences of the 20th century.I offer my poem as my homage to the triumph of his 'defeat'.

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Sir Geoffrey William Hill (18 June 1932 - 30 June 2016) was an English poet and is Professor of Poetry in the University of Oxford.

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William Carlos Williams Czesław Miłosz T. S. Eliot W. H. Auden Seamus Heaney

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Thus I grind to conclusion.

In memory of those things these words were born.

I think men and women who write poetry or write music or paint are finally responsible for what they do. They are entitled to praise for any success they achieve and they should not complain of just criticism.

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