Clifford Bax — a remark

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“Poetry is the attempt of human speech to catch the movement of the eternal.”

Defining the transcendent goal of poetic language beyond everyday prose · Ideas and People (essay / memoir, 1936)

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Clifford Bax

13 July 1886–18 November 1962

In the landscape of early twentieth-century English letters, few figures embodied such versatility and contradiction as Clifford Lea Bax. Born on July 13, 1886, in Upper Tooting, south London, into an affluent family that would nurture two remarkable artistic talents, Bax lived until November 18, 1962, leaving behind…

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