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English poetry is not yet fit to speak of them.
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He learned to speak Welsh as an adult and wrote prose in Welsh but his poetry in English.
BBC: RS Thomas
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Digital English is no good for poetry or novels, but on balance it's refreshing.
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The two of them had discussed what Anglo-Welsh poetry - writing about Wales in English - actually meant.
BBC: Tributes paid to Anglo-Welsh poet Raymond Garlick
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The Poetry House is part of the university's School of English whose staff include poets Don Paterson, Kathleen Jamie, Douglas Dunn, Robert Crawford and John Burnside, amongst them winners of the Whitbread Prize, the T.
BBC: Home is where the art is
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To study for a doctorate, even in fine art or the poetry of the Tang dynasty, students need to show fluent literacy in English.
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People such as John Constable, an English literature don at Cambridge University, who knows lots about the mathematical differences between poetry and prose, can make formidable opponents.
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"'Kicking ass' is acceptable vulgarity, " says Michael Adams, professor of English language at Indiana University-Bloomington and author of Slang: The People's Poetry.
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The English, with rare exceptions, were unsympathetic to his loud, polemical style, his declamatory poetry based more on sound than sense, his pictures assembled from bits of detritus, his artistic pranks and his love of outrageous nonsense which he used to deflate and then liberate his audiences.
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