English Poets

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    “From alle wymmen mi love is lent
    And lyht on Alysoun.”
    —Unknown. Alison. . .

    Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250–1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939)

    “When poets go off the boil, they sound like bumble bees; when critics do, they sound like sewing machines.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)