"Northern Ship"

…Graduated from Oxford University. His first collection of poems, The North Ship (1945), lacked the ornate rhetoric of Dylan Thomas or the Neo-Apocalyptic school, and this passive characteristic attracted attention in the poetry world of the time. Influenced by the poetry of T. Hardy, he acquired a style of poetry that sang of things and people around him without being overly serious, and by deepening this style, he reached maturity in his second collection of poems, Away (1955). …

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…オックスフォード大学卒業。処女詩集《北の船》(1945)はディラン･トマス的，〈新黙示録〉派的な華麗な修辞を欠いており，この消極的特徴によって，当時の詩壇で注目される。T.ハーディの詩の影響のもと，肩を張らずに身辺の事物や人間を歌う詩風を身につけ，これを深めることによって，第2詩集《迷いさめて》(1955)の円熟に到達した。…

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