I discovered these when I was about sixteen or so. They have taught me so much about poetry, about good poetry, about style and craft and our own century's short-comings, I hold them up somewhat as my critical compass. Yet, they get very little mentions. Beyond all the self-congratulatory poetry podcasts these stand -- an ore of genius insufficiently mined. I hope some of you will take the time to try them out.
https://www.english.ox.ac.uk/profess...-hill-lectures
He can also be quite hilarious ("In the immortal words of Charlie Brooker: Go away!" is how he ends his final lecture) and there is no one who reads poems like he does, with a kind of savage, gripping eloquence.