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The first time I ever felt the necessity or inevitableness of verse, was in the desire to reproduce the peculiar quality of feeling which is induced by the flat spaces and wide horizons of the virgin prairie of western Canada.
T. E. Hulme
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T. E. Hulme
Age: 34 †
Born: 1883
Born: September 16
Died: 1917
Died: September 28
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Endon
Staffordshire
Thomas Ernest Hulme
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