biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1900–85)
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| biography:
| Poet, born in Scotswood, Northumberland, NE England, UK. He worked as a journalist in Paris, was much influenced by Pound and the American Modernists, and published his early poetry abroad. After some years in Paris, where he worked on translation, he returned to Britain and established his reputation with Briggflatts (1966), a semi-autobiographical poem deeply rooted in the North East. |
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