Seeking “The Root In Justice”: Geoffrey Hill On Ezra Pound

Geoffrey Hill has devoted considerable attention to Pound in his critical prose. This is in part because his own work continues in the modernist tradition and is influenced by Pound’s poetry, as Hill’s choice to publish several long poems in Agenda suggests. Hill’s prose work on Pound seems to occur primarily in the decade between 1977 and 1987, but his familiarity with Pound certainly predates that period. Hill became a close friend of Donald Hall in Oxford in 1952 (The Paris Review 291), an...