"A certain ambiguity of rhythm is one of the beauties of a poem"
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The Anatomy of Poetry, Marjoie Boulton, Routledge & Kegan, London 1953.
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Anne Ridler
Anne Barbara Ridler OBE (née Bradby) (July 30, 1912 – October 15, 2001) was a British poet, and Faber and Faber editor, selecting the Faber A Little Book of Modern Verse with T. S. Eliot (1941). Her Collected Poems (Carcanet Press) were published in 1994.
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