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Here lies a civil servant. He was civil
To everyone, and servant to the devil.


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With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
Edgar Allan Poe

C. H. Sisson

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Born: April 22, 1914
Died: September 5, 2003 (aged 89)
Bio: Charles Hubert Sisson, usually cited as C. H. Sisson, was a British writer, best known as a poet and translator.
Known for:
  1. Christopher Homm (1965)
  2. Selected Poems (1981)
  3. A C.H. Sisson Reader
  4. Collected translations (1996)
  5. In two minds (1990)

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