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“The poet laureate of England talked about murdering Jews on the West Bank.”

Poet England West Jew

Author:Steven T. Katz

“We have been able to have fine poetry in England because the public do not read it, and consequently do not influence it. The public like to insult poets because they are individual, but once they have insulted them, they leave them alone.”

Has Beens Able Individual Influence Poet Fine England Insult Insulted

Book:Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis

Source: Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis

“Greece, sound, thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name, But England's Milton equals both in fame.”

Names Sound Poet Fame England Rome Greece Milton

Book:The poetical works of William Cowper, ed: with notes and biographical introd. by William Benham

Source: The poetical works of William Cowper, ed: with notes and biographical introd. by William Benham

“I think it was rather an advantage not having any living poets in England or America in whom one took any particular interest. I don't know what it would be like but I think it would be a rather troublesome distraction to have such a lot of dominating presences, as you call them, about. Fortunately we weren't bothered by each other.”

Thinking Knows Would Be America Poetry Interest Particular Poet Advantage England Distraction Bothered Troublesome Dominating

Author:T. S. Eliot

“There learned arts do flourish in great honour And poets's wits are had in peerless price; Religion hath lay power, to rest upon her, Advancing virtue, and suppressing vice. For end all good, all grace there freely grows, Had people grace it gratefully to use: For God His gifts there plenteously bestows, But graceless men them greatly do abuse.”

People Men Art Ends Use Grows Virtue Grace Poet Abuse England Lays Vices Wit Honour Advancing Suppressing

Book:The poetical works of Edmund Spenser: With memoir and critical dissertations

Source: The poetical works of Edmund Spenser: With memoir and critical dissertations

“England still waits for the supreme moment of her literature--for the great poet who shall voice her, or, better still, for the thousand little poets whose voices shall pass into our common talk.”

Littles Stills Moments Poetry Literature Waiting Voice Common Poet Thousand England Supreme Great Poet

Book:Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)

“In England especially, poetry's woven into the background fabric of society. And in Ireland, it's in the foreground. The place of the poet in Irish society is enormous. If you say you're a poet in Ireland, you'd better know what you're doing, because the standard and the expectations are incredibly high.”

Ifs Knows Poet Standards Expectations England Backgrounds Enormous Ireland Fabric Woven Foreground

Author:David Whyte

“Crowned with leaves of the laurel. In England the Poet Laureate is an officer of the sovereign's court, acting as dancing skeleton at every royal feast and singing-mute at every royal funeral.”

Acting Poet Singing England Court Dancing Officers Funeral Sovereign Royal Mute Skeletons Laurels

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

“I think the whole emphasis in England, in universities, on practical criticism (but not that so much as on historical criticism, knowing what period a line comes from) this is almost paralysing. In America, in University, we read - what? - T. S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas, Yeats, that is where we began. Shakespeare flaunted in the background. I'm not sure I agree with this, but I think that' for the young poet, the writing poet, it is not quite so frightening to go to university in America as it is in England, for these reasons.”

Thinking Writing Reason Whole America Young Lines Knowing Poet Periods Criticism England Agree Historical University Practicals Backgrounds Not Sure Frightening Emphasis Dylan Eliot Yeats

Author:Sylvia Plath

“When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all.”

Literature Known Alive Poet England Frost New England Icy

Author:Howard Nemerov

“In England, coffeehouses were dubbed penny-universities, because for the admission price of one cent, a person could sit and be edified all day long by scholars, merchants, travelers, community leaders, gossips, and poets.”

Persons Long Community Leader Poet England University Gossip Scholar Cents Traveler Pennies Merchants Admission

Author:Leah Hager Cohen

“There is nothing in England that exercises a more delightful spell over my imagination than the lingerings of the holiday customs and rural games of former times. They recall the pictures my fancy used to draw in the May morning of life, when as yet I only knew the world through books, and believed it to be all that poets had painted it; and they bring with them the flavour of those honest days of yore, in which, perhaps with equal fallacy, I am apt to think the world was more home-bred, social, and joyous than at present.”

Source: The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Esq. (Wasington Irving)