Adrian Mitchell Quotes


I use the language I use to my friends. They wouldn't believe me if I used some high-flown literary language. I want them to believe me.


Citations

Mitchell, Adrian. Personal Statement. Contemporary Poets, edited by James Vinson, 2nd ed., St. James Press, 1975, p. 1065.

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  • Born: October 24, 1932
  • Died: December 20, 2008
  • Nationality: British
  • Profession: Poet, Novelist, Playwright, Cultural Activist

Adrian Mitchell FRSL was an English poet, novelist and playwright. A former journalist, he became a noted figure on the British Left. For almost half a century he was the foremost poet of the country's anti-Bomb movement. The critic Kenneth Tynan called him "the British Mayakovsky".