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Also Known As	Simon Robert Armitage
Born	May 26, 1963 (age 63) • Huddersfield • England
Title / Office	poet laureate (2019-)
Notable Works	“All Points North” • “Book of Matches” • “Gig: The Life and Times of a Rock-Star Fantasist” • “Kid” • “Killing Time” • “The White Stuff,” • “Tyrannosaurus Rex Versus the Corduroy Kid” • “Walking Home”

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Merwin, W.S.

W.S. Merwin

American poet and translator

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Andrew Lang

British scholar

Graham Greene, 1982

Graham Greene

British author

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Robert Graves

British writer

Plomer

William Plomer

South African writer

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Michael Frayn

British author and translator

C. Day-Lewis, 1968.

C. Day-Lewis

British poet

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Sylvia Townsend Warner

British author

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Maurice Baring

British author

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Rex Warner

British writer

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Sir Edward Howard Marsh

British scholar

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D.J. Enright

British poet

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John Banim

Irish author

Portrait of poet Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope

English author

Margaret Atwood smiling at the camera, wearing a red scarf with butterfly patterns and a black top, in front of an orange background with inspirational words.

Margaret Atwood

Canadian author

Anne Carson

Anne Carson

Canadian poet

Colm Toibin stands in a narrow cobblestone alleyway in Mantova, Italy, wearing a gray jacket and black shirt with his hands in his pockets.

Colm Tóibín

Irish author

Michael Ondaatje

Michael Ondaatje

Canadian writer

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Cesare Pavese

Italian author

Chinua Achebe

Chinua Achebe

Nigerian author

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

Famous Poets and Poetic Form

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