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Dominic Moraes (1938–2004) was an Indian writer and poet who published almost thirty books. He is seen as a foundational figure in Indian English literature. Moraes’ first collection of poems, A Beginning, was published in 1957. When he was 19, still…
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The Lost Sea - Jenny Joseph
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You’re - Sylvia Plath
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The Intruder - Roy Fisher
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The Ruin - Frances Cornford
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Kanheri Caves - Dom Moraes
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Armor’s Undermining Modesty - Marianne Moore
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Frances Cornford
B. 1886 D. 1960
Born Frances Crofts Darwin, Cornford grew up in Cambridge and was a granddaughter of Charles Darwin. Her early verse was widely popular attracting positive reviews, but attention waned thereafter. She was awarded the Queen’s Medal for Poetry (1959). She published…
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Marianne Moore
B. 1887 D. 1972
“In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of a fabric is governed by gravity.”