Hill's Comus a miss for O'Brien

'(Milton's) Comus is a masterpiece. Hill's book - pace the Archbishop of Canterbury, Harold Bloom and AN Wilson, all brandished on the cover - is not.'

So Geoffrey's latest doesn't work for the UK's most authoritative critic (and btw, what's Sean doing writing for the Indie? Does that mean the Sunday Times isn't doing poetry reviews anymore?).

The point being made ever so politely is that being boring doesn't cut it whatever your literary model...