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“Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.”

Placing the union of poetic gift and human greatness at the highest level · Essay, The Lyric, What Is Lyric

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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