biography
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Graham, W(illiam) S(ydney)
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1918–86)
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| biography:
| Poet, born in Greenock, Inverclyde, WC Scotland, UK. Essentially a Scottish poet, he was much influenced by Continental and American authors, such as Rimbaud and Hart Crane. His early poems brought encouragement and support from T S Eliot, and contain an exotic mix of imagery from industrial and rural scenes. In later work, such as his best-known single volume, The Nightfishing (1955), he uses the extended metaphor of the voyage, both inward and outward, to examine language and being. His Collected Poems were published in 1979. |
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