Fleur Adcock: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	Kareen Fleur Adcock
Born	February 10, 1934 • New Zealand
Died	October 10, 2024 (aged 90) • London • England
Notable Works	“Dragon Talk” • “High Tide in the Garden” • “Hoard” • “Looking Back” • “The Eye of the Hurricane” • “The Incident Book” • “The Inner Harbour” • “The Land Ballot” • “Tigers” • “Time Zones”

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C.K. Stead

New Zealand author

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Janet Frame

New Zealand writer

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Allen Curnow

New Zealand author

Carol Ann Duffy

Carol Ann Duffy

British poet

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Louis Johnson

New Zealand poet

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John Wain

British critic and writer

D.H. Lawrence

D.H. Lawrence

English writer

Portrait of poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

British poet and critic

T.S. Eliot stands at a chalkboard, writing a diagram with letters and Greek symbols representing characters for a play, in his office at the Institute for Advanced Study.

T.S. Eliot

American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic

Matthew Arnold

Matthew Arnold

British critic

C.S. Lewis

C.S. Lewis

Irish-born author and scholar

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James Fenton

British poet and journalist

Portrait of Gilbert Keith Chesterton wearing glasses and a suit, with a mustache and tousled hair, looking directly at the camera.

G.K. Chesterton

British author

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Robert Graves

British writer

Black and white photograph of William Empson working at the BBC as a news editor for the Eastern Service on August 10, 1946.

William Empson

British critic and poet

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Sir Stephen Spender

English poet

Sir Herbert Read.

Sir Herbert Read

British art critic

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Alfred Domett

prime minister of New Zealand

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T.E. Hulme

English critic and poet

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Kathleen Raine

British writer

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) only confirmed photograph of Emily Dickinson. 1978 scan of a Daguerreotype. ca. 1847; in the Amherst College Archives. American poet. See Notes:

Poetry: First Lines

Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry

A Study of Poetry

4:043 Dickinson, Emily: A Life of Letters, This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me; I'll tell you how the Sun Rose/A Ribbon at a time; Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul

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