by Neil Astley
Patricia Pogson, 61
Kaniyan Punkunran, 90
Jahan Ramazani, 25, 45
Marianne Reinhardt, 37
Anne Ridler, 85
Theodore Roethke, 59
Christina Rossetti, 13, 38
Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi, 25, 37, 44, 73, 82
William Shakespeare, 29, 30
Percy Bysshe Shelley, 59
Masoaka Shiki, 68
Sir Philip Sidney, 45
Ken Smith, 63
Stevie Smith, 84
Anne Stevenson, 57
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 32
Dylan Thomas, 25, 46
R.S. Thomas, 12, 79
Mona Van Duyn, 74
Henry van Dyke, 39
Alice Walker, 78
Walt Whitman, 25, 71
J.T. Wiggins, 37
C.K. Williams, 10, 53, 62
William Carlos Williams, 34
Jeanne Willis, 67
David Wright, 47
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Selection and notes copyright © 2003 Neil Astley.
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