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| | LRB | Ian Hamilton : Snoop Doggy Dogg for Laureate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) |
 | | The other day, for instance, I was contacted by a highly serious poet friend who was, he said, thinking of starting up some kind of campaign to head off PL challenges from light versifiers and streetwise demi-minstrels. |
 | | Cecil Day Lewis's predecessor as Laureate was John Masefield, who held the post for nearly forty years without seeming to know, or greatly care, what was required of him. |
 | | Day Lewis, it was predicted at the time of his appointment, would be much more on the ball. |
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