Martin Bell (poet)
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Martin Bell was a British
poet.
Bell was strongly influenced by T. S. Eliot
and Jules Laforgue
. He used complex ironies and was skilled at deflating by rhetorical devices. However, he was far from being a right-wing satirist.
His style came to maturity in the late 1950s. This relatively late development shows in the depth of experience manifest in his best poems.
His best-known poems are The Enormous Comics and Letter to a Friend.
Great Britain
Great Britain or Britain is an island situated to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the ninth largest island in the world, and the largest European island, as well as the largest of the British Isles...
poet.
Bell was strongly influenced by T. S. Eliot
T. S. Eliot
Thomas Stearns "T. S." Eliot OM was a playwright, literary critic, and arguably the most important English-language poet of the 20th century. Although he was born an American he moved to the United Kingdom in 1914 and was naturalised as a British subject in 1927 at age 39.The poem that made his...
and Jules Laforgue
Jules Laforgue
Jules Laforgue was an innovative Franco-Uruguayan poet, often referred to as a Symbolist poet. Critics and commentators have also pointed to Impressionism as a direct influence and his poetry has been called "part-symbolist, part-impressionist".-Life:...
. He used complex ironies and was skilled at deflating by rhetorical devices. However, he was far from being a right-wing satirist.
His style came to maturity in the late 1950s. This relatively late development shows in the depth of experience manifest in his best poems.
His best-known poems are The Enormous Comics and Letter to a Friend.