Poets
- Dannie Abse, poet, brother of Leo Abse and psychoanalyst Wilfred Abse
- Al Alvarez, poet
- Ivor Cutler, poet, humorist, musician
- Elaine Feinstein, poet, writer, biographer
- Rose Fyleman, children's writer
- Karen Gershon, German-born poet
- Philip Hobsbaum, poet
- Jenny Joseph, poet (The Times (London); 23/11/02; Amanda Craig; p. 6)
- Laurence Lerner, poet (born South Africa)
- Amy Levy, poet & novelist
- Vivian de Sola Pinto, poet
- John Rodker, poet and publisher
- Isaac Rosenberg, war poet
- Jon Silkin, poet
- Arthur Waley, poet and prose writer
- Humbert Wolfe, poet and civil servant
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“I knew a gentleman who was so good a manager of his time that he would not even lose that small portion of it which the calls of nature obliged him to pass in the necessary-house, but gradually went through all the Latin poets in those moments. He bought, for example, a common edition of Horace, of which he tore off gradually a couple of pages, read them first, and then sent them down as a sacrifice to Cloacina: this was so much time fairly gained.”
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