“A real writer […] doesn't look up to any other writer but himself.”
Indro Montanelli (1909–2001) Italian journalist
I protagonisti, Rizzoli, 1976, p. 207.
1950s - 1990s
“My own unryhmed cadences, and those of other writers are a reversion to the real English tradition of Cynewulf.”
Preface , 'Otherworld Cadences', Poetry Bookshop, London 1920
Otherworld Cadences (1920)
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