Clavics Author:Geoffrey Hill A new collection of poetry from Oxford Professor of Poetry, Geoffrey Hill, Clavics is intended as a tribute to early seventeenth-century poetry and music. It takes the form of an elegiac sequence for William Lawes, the Royalist musician killed at the Battle of Chester. Geoffrey Hill has previously taught at Leeds, Cambridge, and Boston Universit... more »y. His twelfth collection of poems, A Treatise of Civil Power, appeared in 2007, following on Scenes from Comus (2005) and Without Title (2006). His Collected Critical Writings (Oxford University Press, 2008) won the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism.« less