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A poem by this author describes a painting of a religious scene in which "angels, their unnatural wings displayed, / Freeze into an attitude / Recalling the dead." This poet declared that "the years will not / answer for what they have done, that much is / certain," in a poem taking its title from Horace's Ode 1.22. The one line canto "Sun-blazed, over Romsley, a livid rain-scarp" bookends a 150-part collection patterned after the Book of Psalms by this poet of "Picture of a Nativity" and "Integer Vitae." This husband of librettist Alice Goodman wrote a set of eight sonnets set at the Battle of (*) Towton during the Wars of the Roses, titled "Funeral Music." This poet may be best known for his thirty prose-poems juxtaposing his childhood in the West Midlands with Offa's dominion over the same area. For 10 points, name this notoriously difficult British poet of The Triumph of Love and Mercian Hymns, a casualty of the year 2016.
A poem by this author describes a painting of a religious scene in which "angels, their unnatural wings displayed, / Freeze into an attitude / Recalling the dead.
Geoffrey Hill [or Sir Geoffrey William Hill] 