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Originally Posted by John Whitworth
Stiff upper lip? I cry very easily and anyway I went to the wrong sort of school. I don't think English poetry is remarkable for its stiff upper lip. Larkin and Housman and that's about it. Shakespeare? Keats? Hopkins? Though he's welsh.
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You're having us on, John. Hopkins was a Londoner and English. He studied theology in Wales (having first had his doubts at Belmont near Hereford not far away) and learnt some Welsh, but that's about it.