English Poets

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    The English public, as a mass, takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.
    Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

    nor till the poets among us can be “literalists of the imagination”Mabove insolence and triviality and can present
    for inspection, “imaginary gardens with real toads in them,” shall we have
    it.
    Marianne Moore (1887–1972)