Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Sebastian Smart Barker FRSL (16 April 1945 - 31 January 2014) was a British poet notable for a visionary manner which has been compared to William Blake in its use of the long ecstatic line and its ‘ability to write lyric poetry which used simple words to encapsulate profound meanings.’ His The Dream of Intelligence (1992) was named as a Book of the Year in both The Independent and The Spectator, and The Erotics of God (2005) was The Tablet 's Book of the Year in 2005.The son of poets George Barker and Elizabeth Smart, he was educated at The King's School, Canterbury, Corpus Christi, Oxford (MA) and at the University of East Anglia (MA).He was on the executive committee of P.E.N. . }
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