Was he the last poet we learned by heart?

Cynthia L. Haven

Apr 22

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"He traveled in Germany during the rise of Nazism. 'For the first time,' he later recalled, 'I felt the earth move.'"

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David44

Apr 26

My candidate for a post-Auden poet whom I have memorized substantial parts of: Tony Harrison.

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Oh - and Clive James.

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Was he the last poet we learned by heart?