"In one of his final publications, Geoffrey Hill asserts his commitment to \'the Strangeness and the power of poetry\'. \'Strangeness\' may here stand for the remarkable distinctiveness of his poetry, which over more than sixty years, from the mid-1950s to his deat. ...
It is generally seen as \'powerful\', in rhetorical, formal, intellectual and emotional terms, and is much concerned with issues of political and aesthetic power.
The words accord with many readers\' responses to Hill\'s own poetry. "In one of his final publications, Geoffrey Hill asserts his commitment to \'the Strangeness and the power of poetry\'