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TS Eliot is voted Britain's favourite poet
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman ...contemporary poets ... the Glasgow-born Poet Laureate...list of the nation's ten favourites unveiled yesterday. TS Eliot was voted Britain's favourite poet, in...males, in a poll to mark National Poetry Day. Eliot...Cats. The ...

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