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      words like those about their own country? Apart from those actually
      writing at the time of the Spanish Civil war--Klein, Scott, Kennedy,
      Leslie- the forties poets were deeply influenced by that earlier
      response: I think of Birney, Lavton. Dudek, Souster, Page, Waddington,
      younger
      
      They in turn have directed^ poets of today towards social concern,
      commitment to change, has only to mention the names
      of Purdy, Acorn, Nowlan to realize how they have stirred the imagination
      of Lane, Lowther, Wayman and Lee.