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Skipwith Cannell, born in 1887, was an American poet associated with the Imagist movement. His poetry was first anthologized by Ezra Pound in Des Imagistes: An Anthology (Albert and Charles Boni, 1914). In 1915, he joined Alfred Kreymborg, Wallace Stevens, and William Carlos Williams, to found Others: A Magazine of the New Verse. Cannell died in 1957.
F. S. Flint was born in London, England, on December 19, 1885. He grew up in poverty and finished his formal education at age thirteen.
Babette Deutsch was born on September 22, 1895, in New York City.
Born in 1935 in El Salvador, Roque Dalton was the author of several influential poetry collections, including Taberna y otros lugares. He spent much of his life in exile in Mexico and Cuba and died in 1975.
David Herbert Lawrence, novelist, short-story writer, poet, and essayist, was born in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, England, on September 11, 1885. Though better known as a novelist, Lawrence's first-published works (in 1909) were poems, and his poetry, especially his evocations of the natural world, have since had a significant influence on many poets on both sides of the Atlantic.
Richard Aldington was born in Hampshire, England, in 1892. An early member of the Imagist movement, he was the author of War and Love (1915-1919) (The Four Seas Company, 1919), Images (The Egoist, 1919), and numerous other books of poetry and prose.