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Henry Reed
Henry Reed
(22 February 1914 - 8 December 1986 / birmingham)
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Henry Reed Henry Reed, was both a poet and a playwright. He was born in Birmingham 22nd February 1914, the elder child and only son of Henry Reed, master bricklayer, and his wife, Mary Ann Ball. He was educated at King Edward VI Grammar School, Birmingham, where he specialized in classics. Since Greek was not taught, he taught himself, and went on to win the Temperley Latin prize and a scholarship to Birmingham University, gaining a first-class degree (1934) and an MA for a thesis on the novels of Thomas Hardy (1936). more >>
 
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''And the frigid burnings of purgatory will not be touched
By any emollient.''
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Henry Reed (1914-1986), British poet. Chard Whitlow (l. 13-14). . . Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century English Verse, The. Philip Larkin, ed. (1973)...
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''And pray for me also under the draughty stair.
As we get older we do not get any younger.

And pray for Kharma under the holy mountain.''
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Henry Reed (1914-1986), British poet. Chard Whitlow (l. 22-24). . . Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century English Verse, The. Philip Larkin, ed. (1973)...
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