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Collected Poems, 1935-1992 (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)

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Praised by T. S. Eliot, who published F. T. Prince’s first long poem, “An Epistle to a Patron,” in The Criterion late in 1935; encouraged by William Butler Yeats, whom he met in Dublin in 1937, to trust in happy thoughts and influenced by Yeats to cultivate a lifelong grasp of speech rhythms and a sense for the conversational logic of the verse paragraph; inspired by the works of modern French poets such as Arthur Rimbaud, Paul Valery, Paul Verlaine, and St.-John Perse as well as the fiction of American writer Henry James; fortified with first-class honors in English at the...

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