As well as representing many of the most important poets of the last 100 years, Strong Words charts many different stances and movements, from modernism to post

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This impressive volume provides over 1,700 biographical entries on poets writing in English from 1910 to the present day, including T. S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas, a

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