biography
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Watkins, Vernon (Phillips)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1906–67)
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| biography:
| Poet, born in Maesteg, Bridgend, S Wales, UK. He studied at Cambridge, and worked at Lloyds Bank, Swansea, for most of his life. He published eight collections of verse during his lifetime, including Ballad of Mari Lwyd (1941), Death Bell (1954), and Affinities (1962). Regarded as one of the greatest Welsh poets in English, as well as one of the most unusual, he was long overshadowed by his friend Dylan Thomas. |
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