Geoffrey Hill could no longer draw a firm distinction between "Blairite Labour" and the Thatcher-era Conservatives, lamenting that both parties had become solely oriented toward "materialism". Hill's style has been subjected to parody: Wendy Cope includes a two-stanza parody of the "Mercian Hymns" entitled "Duffa Rex" in "Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis". Geoffrey Hill Sir Geoffrey William Hill, FRSL (18 June 1932 – 30 June 2016) was an English poet, professor emeritus of English literature and religion, and former co-director of the Editorial Institute, at Boston University. Hill has been considered to be among the most distinguished poets of his generation and
Wendy Cope Sir Philip Sidney: My true love hath my heart and I have hers We swapped last Tuesday and felt quite elated But now whenever one of us refers To 'my heart' things get rather complicated. to reducing T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" to limericks: In April one seldom feels cheerful; Dry stones, sun and dust make me fearful; Clairvoyants distress me, Commuters depress me— Met Stetson and gave him an earful. Her style has been compared to that of John Betjeman and Philip Larkin. Wendy Cope Wendy Cope, (born 21 July 1945) is a contemporary English poet. She read