biography
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| lived:
| (1904–72)
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| biography:
| Poet, born in Ballintubber, Co Kildare, E Ireland. He studied at Oxford, and became a teacher. During the 1930s he was known as a leading left-wing writer, but in 1939 he broke away from Communism. He was professor of poetry at Oxford (1951–6), and wrote detective stories under the pseudonym of Nicholas Blake. His Collected Poems appeared in 1954, and his autobiographical The Buried Day in 1960. He was created poet laureate in 1968. |
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