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“We are so impressed by the power of poetry that we think of it as something made by a wonderful and unusual person: we do not realize that all the wonder and marvel is in our own brains, that the poet is ourselves.”

Places the poet among ordinary speakers rather than above them · Introduction, Ardours and Endurances, 1917 (quoting and endorsing Mark Liddell)

About Robert Nichols

Robert Nichols

6 September 1893–17 December 1944

In the pantheon of early twentieth-century British poetry, certain voices echo through the decades with enduring resonance, while others fade into the margins of literary history despite their once-prominent positions. Robert Malise Bowyer Nichols belongs to this latter category—a poet whose name once commanded…

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