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Although Keith Douglas was killed in World War II, apart from a brief selection of his poems published in 1943 with poems by J.C. Hall and Norman Nicholson, his work was not published until 1946, and the importance of his writing has been only truly recognized within the past twenty years. Geoffrey Hill summed up the situation in "'I in Another Place': Homage to Keith Douglas," a fine review-article of 1964, when he declared that Douglas was "at once 'established' and overlooked." A hunt through standard anthologies, surveys, and histories will show how thoroughly he had been overlooked. It was in the minds of poets of his own and the subsequent generations that his achievement had been firmly established. From the 1940s on, Bernard Spencer, G.S. Fraser, Lawrence Durrell, Roy Fuller, Alan Ross, and Vernon Scannell were among those who held his work in high esteem. To the next generation of poets, Douglas's work epitomized what was absent from British poetry of the 1950s and early 1960s.Charles Tomlinson made Douglas the centerpiece of an attack upon The Movement in his 1961 essay, "Poetry Today." Tributes from poets as diverse as Geoffrey Hill, Michael Hamburger, Jon Silkin, and Ted Hughes proved Tomlinson's point of view to be no eccentric emphasis.
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