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I'd vote for Auden and Eliot on that one. Frederick Pollack wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- From: "TheOldMole" <[log in to unmask]> > To: <[log in to unmask]> > Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2007 3:28 PM > Subject: Re: MacArthur Poets > > >> I still think of Thom Gunn as a British poet. >> > > > Should there be a category for the "Atlantic" poet? Not merely > someone who crosses the Pond but who makes a conscious effort to > transcend it. If so, who would be most "Atlantic"? Gunn? Auden? > Geoffrey Hill? Interesting book called "Atlantic Poets" by Irene > Ramalho Santos; she claims Pessoa for this category! -- Tad Richards http://www.opus40.org/tadrichards/ http://opusforty.blogspot.com/