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The reader who is illuminated is, in a real sense, the poem.

H. M. Tomlinson

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H. M. Tomlinson
Age: 84 †
Born: 1873
Born: June 21
Died: 1958
Died: February 5
Author
Journalist
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London
England
Henry Major Tomlinson
Poem
Reader
Poetry
Sense
Real
Illuminated

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