Clover is an ambitious poet with enough reserve of diligence and ethical backbone to justify both his ambition and the demands that ambition places upon his readers.
Mazer is a talented and enormously ambitious poet whose primary medium is nothing less than the sum total of all our collective and individual memories.
So how does the ambitious poet with dreams of chairing a department or being published by a huge New York press deal with the sort of intrinsic anonymity that comes with being a poet, subject to the cruel twists of fate of the tests of time?
But very few ambitious poets have written poems so complacent as Merwin's late, convivial elegies "Testimony" and "Lament for the Makers".
But very few ambitious poets have written poems so complacent as Merwin's late, convivial elegies "Testimony" and "Lament for the Makers". Their titles invoke François Villon and William Dunbar, but the poems themselves are full of Merwin's A-list bonhommes: Ben Sonnenberg, Richard Howard, Grace Schulman.
An ambitious Chilean poet, Carlos Wieder, comes up with a scheme for getting ahead in the Pinochet regime.
Despite his parents' warnings, Pope is too ambitious a poet to fritter away his time in safe obscurity.
Mitchell remembered her father, a doctor, telling her, "You can't do anything as well as I because you are a woman" — a vote of no confidence that she may have found it difficult to reconcile with the fact that her mother, Marion Strobel, was ambitious, a poet and novelist who was involved with the avant-garde magazine Poetry.
Crane, the seraphic, desperately ambitious, miserable homosexual poet, who committed suicide in 1932 by throwing himself off a ship in the Caribbean, was a natural subject of identification for Hartley, whose description of his own painting is worth quoting.
Chaucer, following the example of Dante, was one of the first poets in his country to dignify the vernacular by using it for a long, ambitious poem.
Andrew Motion praises his work as "sharp, fresh, clear and ambitious", and fellow Welsh poet Dannie Abse describes him as "the real thing".
