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William Blake
B. 1757 D. 1827
The imagination is not a State: it is the Human existence itself. William Blake
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Ezra Pound
B. 1885 D. 1972
Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand. - Ezra Pound
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Theodore Roethke
B. 1908 D. 1963
In a dark time the eye begins to see - 'In a Dark Time', Theodore Roethke
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Owen Sheers
B. 1974
Finely wrought verse that is tough, but also lyrical. A distinctive new voice - Neil Rollinson
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Edwin Morgan
B. 1920 D. 2010
the most dynamic, brilliant, free-wheeling poet around, endlessly accessible and inventive - The Scotsman