Clive, Richard, should we move this to General Talk? Just as Auden fled to these shore, Dick Davis, the only great living English poet, (and my forthcoming guest on Lariat) came here twenty years ago. Paradoxically, Michael Donaghy (shades of T.S.E.!) left New York and moved to Britain, and Michael is the friend I most hope to see Over There. The Irish conquered the English language in the eighteenth century, and since then, England has been our library, and we oppressed, downtrodden Colonists have constituted England's laboratory. Fair is fair.
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