Robert Burns is Scotland's most venerated poet.
Wordsworth is one of Britain's most famous poets.
symbolist poets
The passages might even be seen - despite their preservation as written texts - to provide a unique witness to the improvisatory practices of oral poets.
His recent electronic work explores the use of voice as a sound source and often involves collaboration with poets and visual artists.
He even compares his state, deprived of a dramatic poet, to that of a maiden with no suitors.