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The three greatest expository prose stylists in the language are R.G. Collingwood, W.H. Auden and Iris Murdoch. The runners up are George Steiner, Bertrand Russell and H.A. L. Fisher.
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The three greatest nature poets in the language after Shakespeare are Dylan Thomas, Gerald Manly Hopkins and John Clare. A close runner up is Ted Hughes.
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The three greatest metaphysical poets in the language after Shakespeare are Dylan Thomas, W.H. Auden and John Donne. A runner up is Emily Dickinson.
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The three greatest lyric poets in the language after Shakespeare are John Keats, W.H. Auden and Lawrence Durrell. Distant runners up are Phillip Larkin and Douglas Dunne.
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The three greatest linguistic artists in the language are Shakespeare, Dickens, and James Joyce. Milton is the closest runner up.
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