TS Eliot named the nation's favourite poet
TS Eliot is given the title of 'nation's favourite poet' by an online poll hosted by the BBC to mark National Poetry Day
The rousing strains of Rudyard Kipling's "If" might have catapulted him to a landslide victory in the vote for the nation's favourite poem back in 1995, but the reading tastes of the UK appear to have taken a more modernist turn over the following 14 years with TS Eliot today named the nation's favourite poet in a BBC poll.
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Thursday, 8 October, 2009
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