William Plomer Selected Poems - Memento Author:William Plomer He was E. M Forster?s ?favorite contemporary poet?. W. H Auden extolled his ?first-class visual imagination?. Stephen Spender considered his output ?among the best English poems written in the present century?. Yet for most readers, William Plomer (1903?1973) is now a faintly-remembered name. Born in Pietersburg, South Africa, Plomer settled in ... more »London in 1929, where he went on to occupy a central position in English letters. By the time of his death he had published ten books of poetry. In a voice impersonal and strange, Plomer?s best poems reveal a mind that delights in the ?sensory, pictorial and plastic? (though not, as he thought, at the expense of the metaphysical).« less