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Work Without Hope
Lines composed 21st February 1825

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(October 21st 1772 — July 25th 1834)

In May 1832, Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote to his nephew Henry Nelson Coleridge noting that, in the Parisian and American editions of his work, the word 'slugs' had been misprinted as 'stags'. ...

Joy

Hugo Williams
(February 20th 1942 — )

Hugo Williams has earned his living as a journalist and travel writer and has written the 'Freelance' column in the Time Literary Supplement since 1988. His latest poetry collection, Billy's Rain the chronicle of a love-affair, won him the T.S. Eliot Prize in 2000. His Collected Poems was published in 2002.

O thou whose face hath felt the Winter's wind

John Keats
(October 31st 1795 — February 23rd 1821)

...Reynolds was suffering from rheumatic fever, and Keats sought with his poem "to lift a little time from your Shoulders." In the accompanying letter, Keats explained how the song of a thrush he heard whilst out walking had inspired the poem. It is unique in being Keats' only unrhymed sonnet.

Poet A. R. Ammons born in North Carolina February 18th 1926.

Fare Well

Walters de la Mare
(April 25th 1873 — June 22nd 1956)

...He wrote stories and poetry for both adults and children and his first successful collection, The Listeners and Other Poems, explored his signature themes of death, childhood, dreams and the supernatural.

Lyric

Denise Riley
(February 16th 1948 — )

...She is Reader in the Department of English & American Studies at the University of East Anglia. She has written a number of books of which the most recent is The Word of Selves; Solidarity, Identification, Irony (Stanford University Press, 2000) as well as many collections of poetry, including Denise Riley: Selected Poems (Reality Street Editions, 2000)

À quoi bon dire

Charlotte Mew
(November 15th 1869 — March 24th 1928)

Charlotte began to write at an early age but her first collection, The Farmer's Bride, was not published until she was almost 50. Nevertheless it won her a considerable reputation. she blamed her small output oh the trials of domestic life — housework and caring for a demanding mother — but was once heard to remark: "I'm burning up my work.

Tennyson resigned membership of The Apostles debating society on February 13th 1830, being too nervous to speak

English poet, composer and physician Thomas Campion, born in London February 12th 1567.

Else Lasker, German Jewish poet and writer, who emigrated to Switzerland in 1933, born February 11th 1869.