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Tag: Dryden

191. (Samuel Johnson)

Samuel Johnson has never held me in magnetic thrall as he does so many of the critics I admire. He … More

Criticism, Dryden, Samuel Johnson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge

39. (Thom Gunn)

Although I assume he has a host of them, I have not met a devoted admirer of Thom Gunn’s poetry. … More

Allen Tate, British Poetry, Dryden, Ezra Pound, Geoffrey Hill, Jonson, modern poetry, Poetry, Thom Gunn, W.B. Yeats, Yvor Winters
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