This poet wrote that "the mind must sweat a poison / Keener than Thessaly's brew" in a work whose speaker states "Now I have come to reason / And cast my schoolboy clout." Another poem by this author claims that "big guns" will "Grow nearer home - and out of the dream-house stumbling" such that "You'll know you slept too long." This poet described how "for those / whom accident made great", "their seed is in us and over /
This poet wrote that "the mind must sweat a poison / Keener than Thessaly's brew" in a work whose speaker states "Now I have come to reason / And cast my schoolboy clout." Another poem by this author claims that "big guns" will "Grow nearer home - and out of the dream-house stumbling" such that "You'll know you slept too long." This poet described how "for those / whom accident made great", "their seed is in us and over / our lives they are evergreen" in the title poem of one of his collections. This author of "Newsreel" and Transitional Poem introduced the detective Nigel Strangeways in A Question of Proof, a novel written under the pseudonym "Nicholas Blake". Like Louis MacNeice and Stephen Spender, he was a member of the "Auden Group", and he gained fame for his translations of Virgil's three major works. His poetry collections include A Time to Dance and Overtures to Death. For 10 points, name this British Poet Laureate from 1968 to 1972 who rejected the use of the hyphen in his last name.