Possible Clues:

• '... the truth more first than sun, more last than star'
• "... the truth more first than sun, more last than star"
• Poet who was initially a professional designing power grids and robots?
• "Tulips and Chimneys" poet
• 'anyone lived in a pretty how town' poet
• "anyone lived in a pretty how town" poet
• 'yonder deadfromtheneckup graduate...' poet
• Tulips and Chimneys poet
• Man of letters?