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Hello, may I make an earnest plea for help with these two clues from this week’s TLS, gentle nudges accepted too.

Yankee in a story of a dystopian future - a male historical novelist called Stanley (6) (Letters I have are W???A?

Long time on farmland made a former agricultural worker a poet (8) (??A?S?E?)

Thank you!

The first one looks like Weyman. He certainly fits the definition. I can see Y for Yankee but not the rest.

Ah I was thinking of “We” for the dystopian future! Thanks, that seems to fit nicely

Ah, very good

Ann YEARSLEY was a milkwoman turned poetess

Thank you!