Monday 6 June 2011

How far can you Press a Poet? Stevie Smith was right!

How far can you press a poet?
To the last limit and he'll not show it
And one step further and he's dead
And his death is upon your head.

Stevie Smith



A propos:

Letter from Byron to John Murray, 31 July 1821:

'Are you aware that Shelley has written an elegy on Keats - and accuses the Quarterly of killing him? -
    Who killed John Keats?
    I, says the Quarterly
    So savage & Tartarly
    'Twas one of my feats -

    Who shot the arrow?
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