John Copse

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John Copse was an English Abstract Romantic poet. The main theme in his work is the observation of the countryside around Bedfordshire, where he spent most of his life. His poems are often short, some with as few as two lines, and are characterised by obscure imagery of rural life and forms. He is said to have once personally referred to them as 'dead haikus'. W.H. Davies remarked: 'No author in my mind has better proven the idea that less is more. He could say a great deal with just a couple of words; most of the time in his unique impressionistic style, but sometimes making his meaning exquisitely clear. In the end he became part of the landscape he loved and, just like those streams running by groves, between hedges and far off into distant plains, he is endlessly intriguing.' Although little of his work survives today, new manuscripts bearing his name have begun to surface over the last few years; discovered by a few loyal admirers, and mysteriously buried in the woods and fields surrounding his home.)

The Best Poem Of John Copse

Knyghton

In Knyghton's efforts rise
All to his country the men of skies
Turned at once from brook pleasures
To gazing ages the ditches sever.

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