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“We may at times, knowing of honourable and inspiriting things in a poet’s life, read into his imperfect word a value that it does not possess.”

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About John Drinkwater

John Drinkwater

1 June 1882–25 March 1937

John Drinkwater, born on 1 June 1882 and dead on 25 March 1937, was one of the most visible English men of letters of the years between the First World War and the rise of high modernism. Poet, playwright, actor, theatre manager, critic, lecturer, anthologist, and autobiographer, he possessed a public versatility that…

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