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Poet's idle ways corrected (3,5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

day lewis

'poet's' is the definition.
(Cecil Day-Lewis, Poet Laureate 1968-1972)

'idle ways corrected' is the wordplay.
'corrected' indicates anagramming the letters.
'idle'+'ways'='idleways'
'idleways' anagrammed gives 'DAY-LEWIS'.

(Another definition for day lewis that I've seen is " Poet Laureate no longer active".)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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