Harvesting in time of war

Housman, Virgil, Homer, Marvell, Fisher, Rosenberg and Davies

Last week James Marriott posted Geoffrey Hill’s poem ‘The Laurel Axe’ on Twitter/X and remarked that he thought it “one of the most profound and atmospheric autumn poems of all time. And perhaps the greatest written in the twentieth century.”This is the kind of obviously slightly-mad remark that is perfectly calibrated to produce a healthy reaction on …