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poet

[poh-it] / ˈpoʊ ɪt /


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Ms. Lewin is particularly suspicious of Keats House in London’s Hampstead, where the poet lived for less than two years, hardly long enough to leave a material impression on his surroundings.

From The Wall Street Journal

But he articulated things that hadn’t been part of the American grain, becoming his country’s poet laureate of nature and ethics and its hippie Founding Father.

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The building is called the Virgil, which indicates that at least someone in the filmmaking process has heard of Dante’s “Inferno,” in which the Roman poet appears as hell’s tour guide.

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That long-ago mishmash of horses, poets and peacemakers seems quaint today.

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Alongside the sound of birds, the Port Talbot-born actor recited lines from the first and second verses of Fern Hill by Welsh poet Dylan Thomas while on a visit back to his homeland.

From BBC