"Distorting hackneyed words in hackneyed songs He turns revolt into a style, prolongs The impulse to a habit of the time."
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Poets from the United StatesPoets from EnglandUniversity of Cambridge alumniMacArthur FellowsUniversity of California, Berkeley faculty
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"Elvis Presley,", in The Sense of Movement (1957).
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Thom Gunn
Thomson William "Thom" Gunn (29 August 1929 in Gravesend, Kent – 25 April 2004 in San Francisco) was an Anglo-American poet.
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