English Poets

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    Most English talk is a quadrille in a sentry-box.
    Henry James (1843–1916)

    Many are poets but without the name,
    For what is poesy but to create
    From overfeeling good or ill; and aim
    At an external life beyond our fate,
    And be the new Prometheus of new men.
    George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)