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‘Our language is our land’, says Tomlinson in ‘Return to Hinton’ (A Peopled Landscape). The perspective changes after Reverdy and Emmanuel, though it would be wrong to attribute the change only to the difference between English poetry and French. Nevertheless, it is the English language that Tomlinson tills, so that it should produce poems, and also so that it should be, not the place which we inhabit but the ground which sustains that inhabiting.
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Edwards, M. (1990). Tomlinson. In: Of Making Many Books. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21034-3_7
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