Geoffrey Hill (b. 1932) Scenes from Comus, 2005.
Geoffrey Hill is one of the foremost poets currently working in England, whose recent collections are evidence of his prolonged engagement with the works of Milton. Scenes from Comus takes its title from a symphony by the composer Hugh Wood, who was born within days of Hill in 1932. Wood’s musical meditation on sensuality and old age was itself composed in response to Milton’s masque. Scenes from Comus is written in Hill’s characteristically allusive style, interweaving references to Milton’s Comus throughout its three books.