Still, this is a story that cannot be told without Breton because such was his dominating personality that, with the exception of Duchamp, Picasso and the aging Matisse, all the poets, writers and artists of the day were forced to define themselves as his friend or foe (and many of course went from friend to foe).

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It is a proud, quirky, challenging place, a city of hustlers and of poets, where hard realities and dreams collide every day.

BBC: A Beijing state of mind

Cecil Day-Lewis was one of the most notable Anglo-Irish poets of the 20th Century.

BBC: Cecil Day-Lewis