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August 01, 2012

The Games Continue: ON (POETRY AND) BOXING by Jennifer L. Grotz

Terrible boxeurI am not the first poet to fall in love with boxing. References to pugilism go back to Homer, but the English Romantic poets in particular took great interest in the sport, as have various literati from Melville to Mailer. Albert Camus and Ernest Hemingway, as well as T. S. Eliot and Lord Byron, in particular, participated in the sport; others, such as John Clare, were avid spectators.

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