Martin Bell (poet)
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Martin Bell (1918-1978) was a British poet.
Bell was strongly influenced by T.S. Eliot and Jules Laforgue. He used complex ironies and was skilled at deflating by rhetorical devices. However, he was far from being a right-wing satirist.
His style came to maturity in the late 1950s. This relatively late development shows in the depth of experience manifest in his best poems.
His best-known poems are The Enormous Comics and Letter to a Friend.
