English Poets

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    He had first discovered a propensity for savagery in the acrid lavatories of a minor English public school where he used to press the heads of the new boys into the ceramic bowl and pull the flush upon them to drown their gurgling protests.
    Angela Carter (1940–1992)

    nor till the poets among us can be
    literalists of
    the imagination—above
    insolence and triviality and can present

    for inspection, ‘imaginary gardens with real toads in them’,
    shall we have
    Marianne Moore (1887–1972)