Edward Lucie-Smith

thumb|Edward Lucie-Smith in 2006 John Edward McKenzie Lucie-Smith (27 February 1933 – July 2026) was a British poet, critic and anthologist. He was born in Kingston, Jamaica, moving to the United Kingdom in 1946. Quotes It's ten years since I heard, andThen one day a letter comes.It's neutral stuff, until IDelve into the envelopeAgain and find your photo,Handsome still, and not a lineTo tell me why you sent it. Poem A Former Lover A poet of my kindSkates on the thinnest ice. Poem Postcard My uncle [mother’s brother] wrote rather twee books of memoirs in the period between the two World Wars. They’d be deeply embarrassing to read today. In the 19th century my mother’s family were involved with the Pre-Raphaelites, and a direct ancestor of mine was Lady Byron’s lawyer, who advised her to leave the poet because of her husband’s affair with his half-sister. A much earlier ancestor on my mother’s side was chaplain to Richard Corbet, Bishop of Oxford, who wrote the poem ‘Farewell Rewards and Fairies’. In his ‘Brief Lives’ Aubrey describes them getting drunk together in the cellars of Christchurch, Oxford. From an interview External links Category:1933 births Category:2026 deaths Category:West Indian poets Category:Poets from England Category:Anthologists from England Category:Art critics Category:Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature Category:University of Oxford alumni