With the saints give rest.
He was a brilliant poet. I met him, oddly enough, in Spain in the early 2000s. He was giving a reading at the Circulo de Bellas Artes.
I think he was in some ways the last of a generation, that is, the generation of poets who really knew and cared about how to write poetry.
“I think he was in some ways the last of a generation, that is, the generation of poets who really knew and cared about how to write poetry.”
I think you’re right. He was a wonderful craftsman of words - he cherished them and all their facets. Truly a master.